A distant port broadside view of an unidentified general cargo ship, possibly named Titan, anchored at Huelva, Spain.

A distant port broadside view of an unidentified general cargo ship anchored at Huelva, Spain. The ship is a four-hold, two-masted, single funnelled steamer and the name on the bow appears to be TITAN. No vessel of this name and description appears in any edition of Lloyd's Register from 1934 to 1939. The only vessel of this name during this period was the Alfred Holt Blue Funnel cargo liner Titan of 1906 which had a completely different appearance. The photographer, Henry Bird, was an apprentice on board the Bank Line cargo vessel Inverbank (1924) which was at Huelva to load a cargo of copper sulphate for delivery to Marcus Hook, Philadelphia. His photo album (Reference ALB1405) contains a print from this negative and it is captioned "S.S. TITAN, a Russian steamer seized by Franco at Huelva June 1937".

Object Details

ID: P49871
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Bird, Henry P.
Date made: June - July 1937
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Bird Collection
Measurements: Overall: 46 mm x 73 mm