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An image showing 'A starboard broadside view of the cable ship Edinburgh (1855) at moorings in Gravesend Reach, River Thames. She is ship rigged with double topsails and single topgallants and, unusually for a cable ship, has a running bowsprit. Tilbury Fort Watergate is in the background. Negatives numbers G1496 and G1507 were taken on the same occasion. F. C. Gould & Son'
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Edinburgh (1855)

A whole plate negative. A starboard broadside view of the cable ship Edinburgh (1855) at moorings in Gravesend Reach, River Thames. She is ship rigged with double topsails and single topgallants and, unusually for a cable ship, has a running bowsprit. Tilbury Fort Watergate is in the background. Negatives numbers G1496 and G1507 were taken on the same occasion.
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Object Details

ID: G1496
Type: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: F. C. Gould & Son
Vessels: Edinburgh (1855)
Date made: 1870-1878
People: Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Co
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Gould Collection