Ships of the Grand Fleet in heavy weather

A view of Scapa Flow in heavy weather. In the foreground is a battleship of the Orion class, which appears to be signalling via light from her forward superstructure. Two more battleships are visible to the right, but their superstructures are overlapping and cannot be identified.

Object details

ID: N16752
Type: Sheet film negative
Materials: Silver halide: nitrate
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Curzon, Francis Richard Henry Penn
Vessels: Agincourt (1913); Collingwood (1908) Monarch (1911) Warspite (1913) Queen Elizabeth (1913)
Date made: 1916-1917
People: Her Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport; Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: 110 mm x 160 mm