Yarmouth (1959) on launch day.

A 4x5 glass plate negative. Guests gathered on the launching platform in the East Yard of John Brown & Co Ltd's shipyard at Clydebank after the naming and launching of the Type 12 frigate Yarmouth (1959), taken from abreast the left side of the berth. The ship's sponsor, Mrs Maureen Catherine Allan, is holding a bouquet of carnations and freesias and is standing by the microphone looking down the vacant slip. On her right are Sir James McFadyen McNeill, Deputy Chairman, and Lord Aberconway, Chairman of John Brown & Co Ltd.

Object Details

ID: N66180
Collection: Historic Photographs
Type: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Portsmouth Dockyard Photographic Unit; John Brown & Company
Vessels: Yarmouth (1959)
Date made: 1957-11-29; 1957-12-03 1957-12-25 1958-02-06 1958-02-20 1958-03-07 1958-04-01 1958-04-21 1958-05-09 1958-06-09 1958-07-01 1958-08-05 1958-08-25 1958-09-09 1958-10-07 1958-10-27 1958-11-19 1958-12-15 1959-01-19 1959-02-10 1959-03-09 1959-03-23 1968-09 1969-1976 1974-12-12 1981-05
People: Allan, Maureen Catherine; McLaren, Charles Melville McNeill, James McFadyen
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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