Recorder (1885)

A whole plate negative. A slightly distant starboard near broadside view, taken from just abaft the beam, of the cable ship Recorder (1885) at moorings in Gravesend Reach, River Thames. Tilbury Fort Watergate is in the background and the land has a light covering of snow. Negatives numbers G1932, G1934 and G1938 were taken on the same occasion.

Object Details

ID: G1932
Type: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: F. C. Gould & Son
Vessels: Recorder (1885)
Date made: 9 January 1886
People: Eastern Extension Australasia & China Telegraph Company
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Gould Collection
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