A port broadside view of the Devitt & Moore general cargo and cadet training ship Hesperus (1873) at moorings in Gravesend Reach, River Thames.
A port broadside view of the Devitt & Moore general cargo and cadet training ship Hesperus (1873) at moorings in Gravesend Reach, River Thames. She is a 3-masted ship with painted ports. She has been fitted with an additional pair of boats in davits forward of the poop break. Tilbury Fort is in the right background and Coast Guard Watch Vessel CGWV.28, formerly the brig Elk (1847), is at the head of the shore line beyond the bow of the Hesperus.
Object Details
| ID: | G10491 |
|---|---|
| Type: | Glass plate negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | F. C. Gould & Son |
| Vessels: | Hesperus (1873); Elk (1847) |
| Date made: | 1892 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Image: 253 mm x 304 mm |