Lighters working cargo alongside the Bank Line cargo vessel Inverbank (1924) in the River Hooghly at Calcutta, India.

Lighters working cargo alongside the Bank Line cargo vessel Inverbank (1924) in the River Hooghly at Calcutta, India. The ship is in Garden Reach and is loading a part cargo of bales of jute fibre and gunny cloth before sailing for Rangoon. The photographer was serving as an apprentice on board the ship and is looking over the side of the ship onto the decks of the lighters that are numbered 29, 28, 42 and 229. Slide 20 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.

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ID:	PCT15768
Type:	Roll film negative
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Bird, Henry P.
Vessels:	Inverbank (1924)
Date made:	November 1937
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Bird Collection
Measurements:	Image: 18 mm x 24 mm;Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm

Lighters working cargo alongside the Bank Line cargo vessel Inverbank (1924) in the River Hooghly at Calcutta, India.

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