Senior apprentice John Naylor doing his ironing on board the Bank Line cargo vessel Inverbank (1924) while under way at sea.

Senior apprentice John Naylor doing his ironing on board the Bank Line cargo vessel Inverbank (1924) while under way at sea. The apprentice Kenneth Glass is relaxing in a deck chair. They are on the aft end of the boat deck and the ship is heading home to Liverpool from Buenos Aires with a mixed general cargo. The photographer, also an apprentice, is looking to starboard from the port side showing the stern of lifeboat number 3 under its davits. Slide 24 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: PCT15772
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Bird, Henry P.
Vessels: Inverbank (1924)
Date made: October 1938
People: Naylor, John; Glass, Kenneth
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Bird Collection
Measurements: Image: 18 mm x 24 mm;Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm