A slightly distant port bow view of the staysail spritsail barge Scone (1919) under sail in the Thames Estuary during the 1981 Blackwater Match.

A slightly distant port bow view of the staysail spritsail barge Scone (1919) under sail in the Thames Estuary during the 1981 Blackwater Match. Her white mizzen sail is loosely furled and she has PREEDCRETE on her white topsail. 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.

Object Details

ID: PM2576/63CN
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: 35 mm x 38 mm