A petty officer and 3 Asian seamen working on mooring ropes wrapped round a bollard on board the British India Steam Navigation Company passenger/cargo liner Kenya (1951) in the Royal Docks, London.
A petty officer and 3 Asian seamen working on mooring ropes wrapped round a bollard on board the British India Steam Navigation Company passenger/cargo liner Kenya (1951) in the Royal Docks, London. This is a posed photograph and the petty officer is wearing a short denim jacket over a woollen roll-neck sweater and has a knife on his belt. The Asian seamen are in European style clothing but one is wearing a traditional hat. Negatives PM1866/21 to PM1870/35 were taken on the same day.
Object Details
| ID: | PM1869/27 |
|---|---|
| Type: | 35mm negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Vessels: | Kenya (1951) |
| Date made: | 2 March 1964 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, P & O Collection |
| Measurements: | Film length: 35 mm x 227 mm;Image: 25 mm x 36 mm |