Orizaba (1886)

A 12x10 negative. A starboard broadside view of the passenger/cargo liner Orizaba (1886) at moorings in Gravesend Reach, River Thames. There are no yards on her foremast. She has been fitted with an additional lifeboat and davits abaft the bridge. The passenger ferry Cato (1849), seen from just ahead of her starboard beam, is alongside aft and a lighter is alongside forward. Tilbury is in the background.

Object Details

ID: G474
Type: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: F. C. Gould & Son
Vessels: Orizaba (1886); Cato (1849)
Date made: 1890-1897
People: London, Tilbury and Southend Railway Co
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Gould Collection