T. G. Hutton (1891)

A half plate negative. A port near broadside view, taken from just ahead of the beam, of the general cargo coaster T G Hutton (1891) aground on the stone causeway in Gravesend Reach, River Thames, in front of the World's End public house, Tilbury, Essex. It is low tide and she is high and dry with her bow in the air and her stern on the mud, supported in way on No. 2 hold by the stone causeway. Her port lifeboat is in its davits but has been lowered to the normal waterline. A rope ladder is over the side abreast number 2 hatch onto the causeway. She grounded on the falling tide in the afternoon while avoiding a collision with the steamship Westlands (1905). She refloated at high tide at 22.15 the same evening. Gravesend is in the background.

Object Details

ID: G1472
Type: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: F. C. Gould & Son
Places: River Thames; Tilbury
Vessels: T. G. Hutton (1891)
Date made: 27 June 1908
People: Hutton, T. G.
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Gould Collection