A slightly distant starboard bow view of an unidentified oyster smack under a crowd of canvas while racing, probably in the Thames Estuary.

A slightly distant starboard bow view of an unidentified oyster smack under a crowd of canvas while racing, probably in the Thames Estuary. She is sailing goose-winged with her genoa boomed out to port and her mainsail out to starboard. A triangular sail has been rigged below the mainsail boom. Another smack is following in her wake.

Object Details

ID: PM2465/14ACN
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Derek Richard Weston
Date made: 1978-1982
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Film length: 35 mm x 152 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm