Apprentice Horace Hayward chipping the anchor on the port bow of the Bank Line general cargo ship Inverbank (1924) at Jacksonville, Florida.
Apprentice Horace Hayward chipping the anchor on the port bow of the Bank Line general cargo ship Inverbank (1924) at Jacksonville, Florida. He is sitting on the bottom rung of a ladder suspended over the bow. A vertical format negative. The photographer, Henry Bird, was an apprentice on board the Inverbank (1924) which was at Jacksonville to complete loading a cargo of scrap iron for delivery to the steel works at Kamaishi, Japan. Slide 7 from the "Apprentice Boy", Captain Henry P. Bird's lecture about his life as an apprentice for Bank Line in the period 1937-1941. The lecture consists of 39 slides.
Object Details
| ID: | PCT15755 |
|---|---|
| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Bird, Henry P. |
| Vessels: | Inverbank (1924) |
| Date made: | August 1937 |
| People: | Hayward, Horace |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Bird Collection |
| Measurements: | Image: 24 mm x 18 mm;Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm |