Ceylon (1858)

A whole plate negative. On board the passenger cruise ship Ceylon (1858) while moored in Gravesend Reach, River Thames. The photographer is on the port side of the forecastle looking aft and to starboard over the forward well deck to the bridge and the short funnel. A telegraph is on the port side of the bridge and sides of beef are hanging on racks on the front of the port bridge wing supporting deckhouse. Tilbury is in the background.

Object Details

ID: G1646
Type: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: F. C. Gould & Son
Vessels: Ceylon (1858)
Date made: March 1884
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Gould Collection
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