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Looking forward from the port side of the upper deck aft on board the general cargo ship Inverbank (1924) while under way at sea. (Roll film negative)
The standard compass binnacle on the monkey island on board the Bank Line general cargo ship Tymeric (1919) while under way at sea. (Roll film negative)
On board the Bank Line general cargo ship Tymeric (1919) while under way at sea. (Roll film negative)
On board the Bank Line general cargo ship Tymeric (1919) while under way at sea. (Roll film negative)
The anchor windlass on the forecastle on board the Bank Line general cargo ship Tymeric (1919) while under way at sea. (Roll film negative)
Three apprentices airing their clothes on board the Bank Line cargo vessel Inverbank (1924) while under way at sea. (Roll film negative)
Thickening ice in the Beaufort Sea taken on board the suction hopper dredger Geopotes X (1969) at sea (Colour transparency)
A slightly distant starboard side view, taken from ahead of the beam, of the Bank Line passenger/cargo liner Incomati (1934) at moorings off Rangoon, Burma. (Roll film negative)
A distant view of the pontoon Pontra Maris (1970) taken from the stern of the motor tug Point Spencer (1973) during a sunset in the Mediterranean Sea (Colour transparency)
A full length portrait of the seaman Nicolai Tsirlis ashore, in an unknown location, from the Bank Line general cargo ship Inverbank (1924). (Roll film negative)
A view of four Indian sailors splicing wire rope on board the bulk carrier Wilkawa (1964) at sea (Colour transparency)
A full-length portrait of two Australian young ladies named Dorothy and Lorna on board the Bank Line cargo vessel Inverbank (1924) while docked at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. (Roll film negative)
A full-length portrait of senior apprenctice John Naylor on board the Bank Line cargo vessel Inverbank (1924) while docked at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. (Roll film negative)
People swimming in the harbour at Kiama, New South Wales, Australia. (Roll film negative)
A view of a sunset in the Caribbean Sea taken from the Virgin Islands (Colour transparency)
A general view of the anchorage and waterfront at Tocopilla, Chile. (Roll film negative)
"Miss Sew-Sew" on board the Overseas Tankship tanker Caltex Melbourne (1945) at Singapore. (Roll film negative)
The final slide "The End" for Captain Henry P. Bird's lecture titled "Apprentice Boy" about his life as an apprentice for Bank Line in the period 1937-1941. (Roll film negative)
A view of five Indian sailors overhauling derricks on the goalpost on board the bulk carrier Wilkawa (1964) at sea (Colour transparency)
A slightly distant starboard side view, taken from ahead of the beam, of the German torpedo boat Kondor (1926) at Huelva, Spain. (Roll film negative)
On board the Bank Line general cargo ship Inverbank (1924) passing into the west side second chamber of Gatun Lock, Panama Canal, from the Atlantic. (Roll film negative)
A view of pontoon hatch covers being placed over parked cars in the hold of the bulk carrier Wilkawa (1964) (Colour transparency)
4th year apprentice Henry P. Bird and 4 colleagues on camels during a visit to a pyramid in Egypt. (Roll film negative)
Apprentice Horace Hayward sawing wood for fuel on board the Bank Line cargo vessel Tymeric (1919) at sea in the Indian Ocean. (Roll film negative)
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