A diving boy and his boat in the harbour at Nassau, Bahamas.

A diving boy plunging head first into the harbour at Nassau, Bahamas from his open boat which is being controlled by a man using a sculling oar over the port quarter. The photographer is on board the passenger tender Lady Cordeaux (1922) looking down over the bulwark. The boy is hoping to retrieve a coin thrown into the harbour by one of the passengers on the tender.

Object Details

ID: P93750
Type: Sheet film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Marine Photo Service
Vessels: Lady Cordeaux (1922)
Date made: 1934-1939
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Waterline Collection
Measurements: Overall: 99 mm x 153 mm