A starboard broadside view of a Suez Canal Company bucket dredger, a hopper barge and a steam driven workboat in the Suez Canal.

A starboard broadside view of a Suez Canal Company bucket dredger, a hopper barge and a steam driven workboat in the Suez Canal. The photographer is on board the tanker Malwa (1961), standing in a cabin on the starboard side, looking to starboard. The transparency is slightly blurred. The east bank of the Suez Canal is in the background.

This is Slide 58 of a lecture given by Captain Henry P. Bird detailing his service as Senior Second Officer and Navigator on board the tanker Malwa (1961), owned by the P&O Group, from 14 November 1963 to 9 March 1964. The lecture consists of 75 slides.

Object Details

ID: PCT16053
Type: Colour transparency
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Bird, Henry P.
Vessels: Malwa (1961)
Date made: January - February 1964
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Bird Collection
Measurements: image: 27 mm x 39 mm;Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm