A distant bow view, taken from very fine off the starboard bow, of the Royal Navy battleship Thunderer (1911) fully afloat after launching at the Thames Iron Works shipyard at Blackwall, London. The photographer is standing by the staging on the left of the starboard way and spectators are in the foreground. The ship is partly obscured by a timber support and the drag chains are slackening off. It is a typical February day with smog over the water. A vertical format negative.