The Harwich Force Torpedo Boat Destroyer Regatta

A view looking towards Parkeston, with HMS Dido (1896), a cruiser converted to a destroyer depot ship, in the background. The photograph was taken from the light cruiser HMS Aurora (1913). In the middle foreground are the whalers of the Harwich Force during the destroyer regatta. The original caption referred to this as the stokers whalers race.

This is a blurred photograph.

Object Details

ID: N22642
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Hooper, Lieutenant Geoffroy William Winsmore
Vessels: Dido (1896)
Date made: September 1916
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Captain Gunn Collection
Measurements: Overall: 85 mm x 108 mm
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