A group of boy trainees with a box of apples on the accommodation skylight on board the 3-masted topsail schooner Sir Winston Churchill (1966) while she is at moorings in Portsmouth Harbour.

A group of boy trainees with a box of apples on the accommodation skylight on board the 3-masted topsail schooner Sir Winston Churchill (1966) while she is at moorings in Portsmouth Harbour. The apples were presented to the ship by John Roundell Palmer, Lord Wolmer, representing the Apple & Pear Development Council. The group of eight boys are between the skylight and the foremast and the names written on the reverse of a print from this negative are Dove, Davis, Taylor, Gooseman, Quesnell, Putteman, Ward and Tasker. The photographer is looking forward and slightly to port from the starboard side and Portsmouth Dockyard is in the left background. In the right background is the training ship Foudroyant (1817). Negatives numbers PM11725/11 to PM11730/37 were taken on the same occasion.

Object Details

ID: PM11730/34
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Bromley-Martin, Angela Felicity
Vessels: Sir Winston Churchill (1966); Foudroyant (1817)
Date made: 13 October 1966
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Film length: 35 mm x 175 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm
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