Edavana (1911) - fire damage and reconstruction at Calcutta, 1918-1920

Contents (plate number):

1. Fore deck and bridge - On arrival April 1917 [sic, the date should be 1918]
2. Saloon deck showing temporary cabins - On arrival April 1917 [sic, the date should be 1918]
3. Dismantling saloons - On arrival April 1917 [sic, the date should be 1918]
4. Sanitary tanks looking forward - On arrival April 1917 [sic, the date should be 1918]
5. Removing fore mast
6. Collapsed bridge and saloon
7. Fore deck
8. Sanitary tanks looking aft
9. First class pantry
10. 2nd saloon
11. No.2 hold
12. No.2 hatch 20 inches from tween deck hatch coaming
13. Forward tween decks
14. 2nd saloon entrance
15. No.1 tween deck
16. Forward deck
17. Removing deck beams
18. Collapsed after deck (Print missing)
19. Engine room casing dismantled
20. No.1 & 2 tween deck
21. Boat & saloon decks removed
22. Cutting out upper deck plates
23. Dismantling engine room vents
24. Removing fore deck plates
25. Removing ventilators
26. Engine room casing removed
27. Upper deck plating removed
28. Ready to go into dock
29. In dock, commencing piling for bund
30. Bund completed
31. Removing deck beams
32. Reinforcing river side of bund
33. Dismantling plating and beams
34. Dismantling forward
35. Removing starboard hull plating
36. Removing hatch coamings aft
37. Aft end partly dismantled
38. Removing bow plating
39. Port hull plating partly removed
40. Frames preparatory to setting
41. Setting midship frames
42. Starboard frames partly finished
43. Refitting bulkheads etc
44. Bund completed (reinforced)
45. View showing progress on after deck
46. Forward main deck ready for re-plating
47. Refitting beams in hold
48. Fore deck (upper) refitting beams
49. Refitting saloon deck beams
50. Assembling stokehold casing
51. Forward beams partly refitted
52. Aft deck beams refitted
53. Starboard frames re-set – bolting on plating
54. Re-plating port side
55. Refitting starboard side plating
56. Riveting lower plates
57. Assembling aft hull plating
58. View showing starboard side progressing
59. Port side partly assembled
60. Port side assembled
61. Starboard bow ready for riveting
62. Starboard hull plating assembled
63. Port side progressing
64. Port side finished
65. Refitting main deck plating
66. Aft main deck plating completed
67. Assembling houses etc
68. View showing progress forward
69. Main deck ready for planking
70. Assembling saloons
71. Completing main deck aft
72. Refitting saloon deck
73. Forward main deck completed
74. Aft main deck progressing
75. View showing saloons completed
76. Boat deck partly completed
77. Dismantling bund piling
78. Ready to leave dry dock
79. Moving into river
80. Clear away from dock
81. Mooring outside workshop
82. Floating crane shipping foremast
83. Lowering into position
84. Shipping after mast
85. Shipping bridge tanks
86. In Kiddepore dry dock
87. Shipping bridge tanks
88. Fitting and pitching propellers
89. Ready to leave dock
90. Leaving dock
91. Bunkering at coal wharf
92. Loading cargo at buoys
93. Leaving buoys
94. Interior of 1.st saloon
95. Coming alongside Outram Ghat for passengers
96. Smoking room
97. Ready for sea (Ship portrait - Port broadside view)

Object Details

ID: ALB0536
Type: Photograph album
Display location: Not on display
Date made: circa 1920
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 390 mm x 260 mm x 40 mm
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