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An image showing 'A port broadside view of the passenger/cargo liner Borneo (1895) at anchor in Gravesend Reach, River Thames. She is loaded almost to her marks and is flying the blue peter and a pilot flag. The negatives numbers G204, G216 and G287 were taken very close together and as it is slack water on a calm day the spritsail barge in the background has hardly moved. The stern of the lighterage tug Terrier (1883) is on the left. Tilbury is in the background. Lionel Thomas Hills'
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Borneo (1895)

A 12x10 negative. A port broadside view of the passenger/cargo liner Borneo (1895) at anchor in Gravesend Reach, River Thames. She is loaded almost to her marks and is flying the blue peter and a pilot flag. The negatives numbers G204, G216 and G287 were taken very close together and as it is slack water on a calm day the spritsail barge in the background has hardly moved. The stern of the lighterage tug Terrier (1883) is on the left. Tilbury is in the background.
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Object Details

ID: G216
Type: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Hills, Lionel Thomas
Vessels: Borneo (1895); Terrier (1883)
Date made: 11 June 1898
People: Goshi Kaisha Kishimoto Shokwa; Kishimoto Kisen Kabushiki Kaisha Shinsan Kisen Kabushiki Kaisha The Spain & China Co Ltd Cia. Naviera Mexicana S A Mexican Government London Steam Tug Co Ltd James Turner, Grimsby Thompson Towage Co Ltd, Hull United Towing Co Ltd Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Gould Collection; National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Green Blackwall Collection