Yarmouth (1959) being launched.

A 3½x4¾ glass plate negative. A starboard side view, taken from ahead of the beam, of the Type 12 frigate Yarmouth (1959) being manouevred by tugs in the River Clyde after being launched from her building berth in the East Yard of John Brown & Co Ltd's shipyard at Clydebank. The bow tug, almost out of the picture, is the Flying Drake (1957) and the stern tug is the Flying Duck (1956).

Object Details

ID: N66187
Collection: Historic Photographs
Type: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Portsmouth Dockyard Photographic Unit; John Brown & Company
Vessels: Yarmouth (1959); Flying Drake (1957) Flying Duck (1956)
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
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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