A group of four shaven headed apprentices and a shaven headed wireless operator on board the Bank Line general cargo ship Inverbank (1924) while at sea. They are on the boat deck abaft the funnel and the photographer, Henry Bird, who was also an apprentice, is looking forward and to port. The apprentices from left to right are John Naylor (with headband), Mitch Mitchell, Kenneth Glass and Horace Hayward. The wireless operator is sitting in the front. In Bird's photograph album (ALB1405) this print is captioned "August 1937" but in his autobiography "Sea Dreams" published in 1997 he says this is in the Pacific in September 1937 en route from San Diego, California, to Kamaishi, Japan.