A starboard quarter view of the staysail spritsail barge Scone (1919) under sail in the Thames Estuary during the 1981 Blackwater Match.

A starboard quarter view of the staysail spritsail barge Scone (1919) under sail in the Thames Estuary during the 1981 Blackwater Match. Her white mizzen is furled and her white topsail has PREEDCRETE on it. She is on the port tack. The race starts off Osea Island in the Blackwater and runs out into the Thames Estuary to the Wallet Spitway off Clacton before turning for the run back. A vertical format negative.

Object Details

ID: PM2559/3CN
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Weston, Derek Richard
Vessels: Scone (1919)
Date made: 1981
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Film length: 35 mm x 152 mm;Frame: 38 mm x 35 mm