Beta
Back to Search Results
An image showing 'A slightly distant starboard broadside view of the cable ship Electra (1885) in Gravesend Reach, River Thames. She has a canvas dodger on her accomodation ladder and an awning is rigged aft. She is flying the houseflag that was adopted in 1902 for the Eastern Extension Australasia & China Telegraph Co Ltd. Tilbury is in the background. F. C. Gould & Son'
+ -

Electra (1885)

A whole plate negative. A slightly distant starboard broadside view of the cable ship Electra (1885) in Gravesend Reach, River Thames. She has a canvas dodger on her accomodation ladder and an awning is rigged aft. She is flying the houseflag that was adopted in 1902 for the Eastern Extension Australasia & China Telegraph Co Ltd. Tilbury is in the background. The top right corner of the negative is broken off.
Back to Search Results
Buy a print License an image

For more information about using images from our Collection, please contact RMG Images.

Object Details

ID: G1647
Type: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: F. C. Gould & Son
Vessels: Electra (1885)
Date made: 1885-1900; 1902-1914
People: Eastern Telegraph Co
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Gould Collection