French cruiser "Descaux" and HMS "Swiftsure". In the foreground is a French Nieuport floatplane ...

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Accession Number G01540
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Bean, Charles Edwin Woodrow (C E W)
Place made Egypt: Suez Canal, Port Said
Date made September 1914
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

French cruiser "Descaux" and HMS "Swiftsure". In the foreground is a French Nieuport floatplane being towed from the seaplane carrier "Foudre" to the aeroplane sheds on the pier on the right.