Athenic (1901)

A 12x10 negative. A slightly distant starboard broadside view of the passenger/cargo liner Athenic (1902) at moorings in Gravesend Reach, River Thames. She is flying a blue peter and a pilot flag. The bow of the paddle tug Cambria (1870) is on the left with the Tilbury Hotel beyond her. Dried out on shore in the right background is the passenger ferry Sir Walter Raleigh (1855).

Object Details

ID: G557
Type: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: F. C. Gould & Son
Vessels: Athenic (1901); Cambria (1870) Tilbury (1855)
Date made: 1902-1905; 1902-1914
People: London, Tilbury and Southend Railway Co
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Gould Collection