Guests ascending to the viewing platform at the launch of the Royal Navy battleship Albion (1898) from the Thames Iron Works shipyard at Blackwall, London.

Guests ascending to the viewing platform at the launch of the Royal Navy battleship Albion (1898) from the Thames Iron Works shipyard at Blackwall, London. A man with a frock coat and top hat is leaning on the rail near the top of the ramp and other guests are standing on a flag bedecked platform by the side of the ship. The photographer is down on the ground. A vertical format negative. A note of the negative says the photographer is using the New Camera.

Object Details

ID: N18657
Type: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Adams, Edgar Tarry
Vessels: Albion (1898)
Date made: 21 June 1898
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Adams Collection
Measurements: Overall: 107 mm x 82 mm