Hospital Ships Atlas, Endymion and Castalia, Long Reach
The Metropolitan Asylums Board 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
10418851
Media ID
47549034
Size
5034px x 3142px
(3.1MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection
Source
Unattributed printed photograph
Date
circa 1900
