'Loading up sugar canes'.
Labourers working in the sugar cane plantations at Hawaii. The man in the middle foreground is standing looking at the camera holding one fo the stripped canes. Behind him are other workers loading the canes onto railway trucks or, in the far distance, cutting more cane. In the middle distance is a steam engine with open trucks behind partially filled with cane.
Lt. Surtees was on board the light cruiser HMS Danae (1916) during the British Special Service Squadron tour of the world between 1923 and 1924. They visted Hawaii/Honolulu between 5 and 12 June before departing for Vancouver.
Lt. Surtees was on board the light cruiser HMS Danae (1916) during the British Special Service Squadron tour of the world between 1923 and 1924. They visted Hawaii/Honolulu between 5 and 12 June before departing for Vancouver.
Object Details
ID: | ALB1247.71 |
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Type: | Photographic print |
Display location: | Not on display |
Date made: | 5-12 June 1924 |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
Measurements: | Overall: 101 mm x 154 mm |
Parts: |
Service career of Lieutenant V. N. Surtees 1920-4 (Photograph album)
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