A crowd of shipyard workers and spectators watching the launch of the Royal Navy battleship Thunderer (1911) at the Thames Iron Works shipyard at Blackwall, London.
A crowd of shipyard workers and spectators watching the launch of the Royal Navy battleship Thunderer (1911) at the Thames Iron Works shipyard at Blackwall, London. In the centre of the picture is Edgar Tarry Adams, wearing an Inverness Cape and waving his hat. He has his plate camera in his left hand. The photographer is standing to starboard of the ways, looking to port and up the berth, showing the starboard launching cradle ram in the foreground.
Object Details
| ID: | N18707 |
|---|---|
| Type: | Glass plate negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Adams, Francis Norris |
| Vessels: | Thunderer (1911) |
| Date made: | 1 February 1911 |
| People: | Adams, Edgar Tarry |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Adams Collection |
| Measurements: | Overall: 82 mm x 107 mm |
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