Isle of Wight Photo
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Ferries & other Ships page 4
 Nostalgia photo
PS Ryde
(Photograph by Mr Sidney Perrier)
August 1937 of 'Ryde' in Southern railway colours
This is an early use of colour photography, using the
'Dufaycolor', process
Film speed was about ASA 2
Photographic history note:- Dufaycolor was a black & white transparency film with a very fine grid of primary red, blue & green lines stuck on to the back of the film
This grid acted as a filter
When the transparency was projected, or viewed in white light, the grid gave the appearance of colour
This was an early form of Additive colour, the same principal is used today for colour TV
This is a very simple explanation of the process
Taken at sea with a film speed of 2ASA, or as we say today ISO, this is a very remarkable photograph indeed
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 Nostalgia photo
MV Balmoral
in her red-funnel days in 1967
Taken off Sandown pier
(Picture Courtesy of Cyril Perrier)
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 The Solent July 2003
(Picture Courtesy of Tom Lee)
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 The Solent July 2003
(Picture Courtesy of Tom Lee)
Isle of Wight in the background and one of the Napoleonic forts (Martello Towers)
There are a few of these Towers spread across the Solent
They were built to stop any French Warship entering Portsmouth Harbour during the Napoleonic wars
The idea was to have a large chain strung between them, just under water level, to tear the wooden hull out of an enemy ship
To my knowledge they were never used
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For more ship photographs please go to my Links page & click Paddle Steamer link
 'Southsea' with a full load of passengers 1963
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 MV Southsea arriving at Ryde Pier
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