Interiors for Ballarat (1954)

Blue cloth covered album with gold embossed title “S.S. BALLARAT July 1954”. 35 (286mm by 223mm) photographic plates glued to loose pages held in by metal clips.

Front page states that she was owned by P & O S N Co., and built by Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd.

1. [No caption] Starboard broadside view of Ballarat (1954), underway.
2. Dining Saloon from port [tables set for meal]
3. Dining Saloon from starboard [looking towards sideboard and clock]
4. Smoking Room from starboard – looking aft [view of the fireplace and dartboard]
5. Smoking Room from starboard – looking to port [view of room looking to portholes]
6. Spare Cabin – looking to port [towards porthole with bed on port bulkhead]
7. Spare Cabin – looking to starboard [towards the bathroom door]
8. Captain’s Day Room [looking towards the writing table, with the bedroom door on the left]
9. Captain’s Bedroom [view from door towards the dressing table]
10. 4th Officer’s Room [view from the end of the bed towards the writing desk and chest of drawers]
11. Engineer Officer’s Cabin [view from the end of the bed towards the writing desk, wardrobe and sink]
12. Galley – looking to starboard
13. Galley – looking to port
14. Insulated spaces, Handing Room [view of insulated doors along corridor]
15. Insulated paces – Vegetable Room
16. General view of the Wheelhouse [looking along the wheelhouse at the binnacle]
17. Wheelhouse – looking aft [view of the telegraphs]
18. View of the Foredeck, looking forward [view from the bridge towards the derricks and forecastle]
19. View of the Windlass and Anchor chain stoppers
20. Forecastle Deck [view of the derrick arm and windlass]
21. Foredeck – looking aft [view of port side towards bridge with derricks and hatchways]
22. Heavy duty winches at foremast [looking aft from port side towards bridge]
23. Bridge front [taken from the port side of the foredeck]
24. Boat deck –looking aft [view aft from port side just before the funnel looking towards the port hand lifeboats.
25. Boat deck – looking forward [view forward from port side, aft of the funnel looking towards the sterns of the lifeboats]
26. Aft end of the Bridge Houses [taken from hatch cover]
27. View of the After Deck – looking forward [view looking towards Boat Deck with hatch in foreground]
28. After mooring arrangement [the cleats at the port quarter]
29. Top of gear case [view in the engine room]
30. Control Stand [view in engine room]
31. Control Stand, looking to port
32. Oil Filter and gear case – looking to starboard
33. Port aft end of Engine Room
34. Diesel generator and main circulating pump, port side – looking aft
35. [no caption] Port broadside view of Ballarat (1954), underway

Object Details

ID: ALB0480
Type: Photograph album
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 1954
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 305 mm x 406 mm x 45 mm