Two trainee boys on the bowsprit pulling on ropes connected to the forestay on board the 3-masted topsail schooner Malcolm Miller (1968) while under sail in Spithead.

Two trainee boys on the bowsprit pulling on ropes connected to the forestay on board the 3-masted topsail schooner Malcolm Miller (1968) while under sail in Spithead. They are reaching high above head height and one of the them is wearing a safety harness. Another boy is about to climb onto the bowsprit. The photographer is looking forward from the port side of the foredeck just abaft the heel of the bowsprit.

Object Details

ID: P50417
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Bromley-Martin, Angela Felicity
Vessels: Malcolm Miller (1968)
Date made: 1976
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 62 mm x 65 mm