A half-length portrait of a boy trainee taking a bite out of an apple on board the 3-masted topsail schooner Sir Winston Churchill (1966) while she is at moorings in Portsmouth Harbour.
A half-length portrait of a boy trainee taking a bite out of an apple on board the 3-masted topsail schooner Sir Winston Churchill (1966) while she is at moorings in Portsmouth Harbour. He is on the stern by the ensign staff. The apple is one of those presented to the ship by John Roundell Palmer, Lord Wolmer, representing the Apple & Pear Development Council. The photographer is looking aft and in the background are the Royal Corps of Transport Mark 8 tank landing craft Abbeville (1945) and the incomplete hull of the aircraft carrier Leviathan (1945). Negatives numbers PM11725/11 to PM11730/37 were taken on the same occasion.
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Object Details
ID: | PM11728/26 |
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Type: | Roll film negative |
Display location: | Not on display |
Creator: | Bromley-Martin, Angela Felicity |
Vessels: | Sir Winston Churchill (1966); Abbeville (1945) Leviathan (1945) |
Date made: | 13 October 1966 |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
Measurements: | Film length: 35 mm x 190 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm |