An image showing 'P38284; Three men in a yard at the foot of a small cliff using a heated liquid and brooms to dress sails. Two sails are hanging from the cliff face to dry. A number of spars, an old steel vertical boiler and a stocked, single fluke anchor are in the foreground. Very similar to P38283.'

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Dressing sails at Brixham, Devon

Three men in a yard at the foot of a small cliff using a heated liquid and brooms to dress sails. Two sails are hanging from the cliff face to dry. A number of spars, an old steel vertical boiler and a stocked, single fluke anchor are in the foreground. Very similar to P38283.

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Object details

ID:	P38284
Type:	Negative
Materials:	Cellulose nitrate negative
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Fox, William C.; Fox, S. C.
Date made:	1922-1939
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Overall: 44 mm x 61 mm