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An image showing 'A distant starboard near broadside view, taken from just abaft the beam, of the passenger/cargo liner Matatua (1904) making headway in Gravesend Reach, River Thames. She is bound down passing Tilbury Docks and a steam launch is alongside her accommodation ladder, presumably to take off the pilot. The paddle tug Cambria (1870) is escorting close alongside her quarter and a screw tug is off her port quarter. Lionel Thomas Hills'
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Matatua (1904)

A 12x10 negative. A distant starboard near broadside view, taken from just abaft the beam, of the passenger/cargo liner Matatua (1904) making headway in Gravesend Reach, River Thames. She is bound down passing Tilbury Docks and a steam launch is alongside her accommodation ladder, presumably to take off the pilot. The paddle tug Cambria (1870) is escorting close alongside her quarter and a screw tug is off her port quarter.
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Object Details

ID: G616
Type: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Hills, Lionel Thomas
Vessels: Matatua (1904); Cambria (1870)
Date made: 6 May 1905
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Gould Collection