Boxing contest

A boxing contest aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth (1913). The boxing ring has been set up on the port side of the shelter deck just forward of the mainmast. The officiating officers are Chaplain the Rev H G Rorison MA and Commander F A Beasley. The armoured cruiser visible on the left of the picture is HMS Hampshire (1903).

Object Details

ID: N16587
Type: Sheet film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Curzon, Francis Richard Henry Penn
Vessels: Hampshire (1903); Queen Elizabeth (1913)
Date made: 1915 - May 1916; 1916
People: Rorison, H G; HM Dockyard, Portsmouth Beasley, F A Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd
Measurements: 110 mm x 160 mm
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