An electric mule assisting the Bank Line general cargo ship Inverbank (1924) in the west side second chamber of Gatun Lock, Panama Canal, from the Atlantic.
An electric mule assisting the Bank Line general cargo ship Inverbank (1924) in the west side second chamber of Gatun Lock, Panama Canal. The photographer is on board the ship looking up at the lock side showing the mule which is connected to the starboard bow. The ship is en route from Jacksonville, Florida, to San Diego, California, for bunkers before crossing the Pacific to Kamaishi, Japan, with a cargo of scrap iron.
Object Details
| ID: | P49891 |
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| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Bird, Henry P. |
| Date made: | August 1937 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Bird Collection |
| Measurements: | Overall: 46 mm x 67 mm |