HMS Gannet : Hull at the water line showing the skin sheathing of metal sheet / exterior sheeting with its antifouling properties which discourage colonisation by by barnacles etc of the sailing ship HMS Gannet, Victorian Royal Navy / naval Doterel class screw sloop of war / Tall Ship on display in Number 4 Dry Dock at Historic Dockyard / Dockyard Chatham in Kent, England UK (121)

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HMS Gannet: Hull at the water line showing the skin sheathing of metal sheet / exterior sheeting with its antifouling properties (similar to the original Muntz sheeting on the tea clipper The Cutty Sark) which discourage colonisation by barnacles etc. of the sailing ship HMS Gannet, a Victorian Royal Navy / Naval Doterel class screw sloop-of-war tall ship from 1878. Display at Historic Dockyard / Dockyards Chatham in Kent UK (121)

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Size: 5472px × 3648px
Location: No 4 Dry Dock (1840) at The Historic Dockyard Chatham. Kent. UK.
Photo credit: © David Gee / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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