A slightly distant starboard bow view of the bowsprit spritsail barge Mirosa (1892) under sail leading a long line of other barges during a race in the Thames Estuary.

A distant starboard bow view of the bowsprit spritsail barge Mirosa (1892) under sail leading a long line of other barges during a race in the Thames Estuary. She is sailing goose-winged with her mainsail and topsail to port and her foresail and staysail poled out to starboard. Only her jib and mizzen are fore-and-aft. She has a Whitbread logo on her topsail.

Object Details

ID: PM2484/3CN
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Weston, Derek Richard
Vessels: Mirosa (1892)
Date made: 1985-1990
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Film length: 35 mm x 161 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm