Apprentice Horace Hayward sawing wood for fuel on board the Bank Line cargo vessel Tymeric (1919) at sea in the Indian Ocean.

Apprentice Horace Hayward sawing wood for fuel on board the Bank Line cargo vessel Tymeric (1919) at sea in the Indian Ocean. He is on the starboard side of the deck by number three hatch. While on voyage from Newcastle, New South Wales, the ship ran into severe weather and ran short of coal and the crew had to cut timber baulks and shifting boards into four feet lengths for use in the furnaces. The photographer, also an apprentice on board, is looking aft. Slide 32 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: PCT15780
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Bird, Henry P.
Vessels: Tymeric (1919)
Date made: June 1939
People: Hayward, Horace
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Bird Collection
Measurements: Image: 18 mm x 24 mm;Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm