A view of three dead inflated whales alongside Sir James Clark Ross (1905)

A view along the side of Sir James Clark Ross (1905), a whale mothership, looking at three dead whales prior to flensing. The whales have been inflated with compressed air to prevent them from sinking.

Object Details

ID: N83443
Type: Sheet film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Villiers, Alan John
Date made: 1923-1924
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Alan Villiers Collection
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