Loading scrap iron onto the Bank Line general cargo ship Inverbank (1924) alongside a wharf at Jacksonville, Florida.
Loading scrap iron onto the Bank Line general cargo ship Inverbank (1924) alongside a wharf at Jacksonville, Florida. The scrap is in railway trucks and is being loaded using an open-ended rectangular bucket. The photographer, Henry Bird, an apprentice on board the Inverbank (1924), is looking over the ship's side. The ship was at Jacksonville to complete loading a cargo of scrap iron for delivery to the steel works at Kamaishi, Japan.
Object Details
| ID: | P49882 |
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| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Bird, Henry P. |
| Vessels: | Inverbank (1924) |
| Date made: | August 1937 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Bird Collection |
| Measurements: | Overall: 46 mm x 70 mm |