Thames Sailing Barges Sirdar Memory Sara Nelson Medway Race 1954 VTG Photo For Sale

This is a silver gelatin photograph that is unmounted and is 5½ x 3½ inches (140x90mm).

It shows four Thames sailing barges underway on a wide river or estuary. The vessels are fully rigged with their distinctive dark sails, with a distant tree-lined shore visible in the background.

The reverse has handwritten pencil annotations reading \'Sirdar crossing starting line Medway Race 26.6.54\'. Additional text at the bottom identifies the vessels reading \'L to R. Memory, Sirdar Sara Nelson\'. A vertical number \'1-54\' is also written on the left side.

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