Hospital ships Atlas, Endymion, Castalia, at Long Reach
View of the Metropolitan Asylums Board's hospital ships Atlas (left), Endymion (centre) and Castalia (right) on the River Thames at Long Reach near Dartford, Kent. Between 1883 and 1903 the three linked ships formed a floating isolation hospital for the treatment of smallpox patients brought by river ambulance from London
Picture No
10472733
Media ID
47528733
Size
5000px x 1916px
(3.7MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection
Source
Unattributed printed photograph
Date
1902
