A view of a scrap yard [or prolerising plant] in Newark, New Jersey taken from the motor bulk carrier Wilkawa (1964)
A view of a scrap yard [or prolerising plant] in Newark, New Jersey taken from the motor bulk carrier Wilkawa (1964). Two cranes are loading crushed cars into lighter barges in the foreground. The number "DB20" are painted in white on the bow of one of the lighter barges. This is Slide 74 of a series of slides detailing Captain H. Bird's service as Second Officer on board the motor bulk carrier Wilkawa (1964) owned by Sir William Reardon Smith & Sons Ltd of Cardiff, from 17 May 1970 to 26 November 1970. This series consists of 83 slides.
Object Details
| ID: | PCT16333 |
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| Type: | Colour transparency |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Bird, Henry P. |
| Vessels: | Australian City (1964) |
| Date made: | Early September 1970 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Bird Collection |
| Measurements: | Image: 27 mm x 27 mm;Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm |