A group of five shaven headed apprentices 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, the wireless operator using Henry Bird' s camera, is looking forward and to port. The apprentices standing from left to right are John Naylor (with headband), Mitch Mitchell, Kenneth Glass and Horace Hayward with Henry Bird, wearing a vest, 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.