A slightly distant starboard bow view of the staysail barge Oak (1881) under sail in the Thames Estuary during the Southend Barge Match.

A slightly distant starboard bow view of the staysail barge Oak (1881) under sail in the Thames Estuary during the Southend Barge Match. She is on the starboard tack and has white staysail. In the background and seen from wide off her port bow is the staysail barge Ethel Maud (1889), which is turning to port to follow the Oak.

Object Details

ID: PM2317/17
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Weston, Derek Richard
Vessels: Oak (1881); Ethel Maud (1889)
Date made: 1982
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Film length: 35 mm x 228 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm