A starboard bow view of the bawley Thistle (1887) under sail in the Thames Estuary during the sailing of the Tollesbury Match.

A starboard bow view of the bawley Thistle (1887) under sail in the Thames Estuary during the sailing of the Tollesbury Match. She is on the port tack in a good breeze. She has a red staysail and mainsail and a white foresail. Her port number 2RR is painted on her hull. A vertical format negative.