The Grand Fleet at sea

A distant starboard beam view of the ships of the 1st Battle Squadron's 6th Division. Leading the line is HMS Marlborough (1912), followed by HMS Agincourt (1913) and HMS Hercules (1910). Other Grand Fleet battleships are visible beyond this line, but are too distant to be identified.

Object details

ID: N16788
Type: Sheet film negative
Materials: Silver halide: nitrate
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Curzon, Francis Richard Henry Penn
Vessels: Agincourt (1913); Neptune 1909 (HMS) Marlborough (1912)
Date made: 1916
People: Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd; HM Dockyard, Portsmouth Her Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: 110 mm x 160 mm