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

Contents (plate number):
On Arrival, Calcutta. April 1918.

1. Forward of 2nd Saloon
2. Starboard side, Bridge Deck
3. Shade Deck forward
4. Collapsed Sanitary Tanks
5. Lifting out - foremast
6. Remains of Bridge
7. After Shade Deck
8. Collapsed tanks
9. 2nd Saloon (upper deck) [note tow people standing on the warped deck]
10. Collapsed Boat Deck & Bridge
11. Cutting away Boat Deck
12. Shade Deck hatch collapsed on Upper Deck hatch
13. Companion Way at No. 2 hatch
14. Looking from forward to aft [along Shade deck?]
15. Forward end, 2nd Saloon [view of external bulkhead]
16. After Shade Deck
17. Plating sagging round No. 2 hatch
18. Bulkhead & Shade Deck beams [note the sag and buckling]
19. View from forward [looking aft along the beams]
20. Engine room casing marked before removal [note it is marked ERC A1 &c]
21. Shade Deck forward
22. Dismantling deck plating and beams
23. Collapsed Shade, Forward
24. Stokehold casing removed
25. Shade Deck, looking forward
26. Shade Deck, from aft looking forward
27. Shade Deck, from forward looking aft
28. Hull plates marked off previous to vessel docking. [vessel at anchor with barge alongside]
29. In dock, commencing piling for bund [the construction of the dam for the derydock]
30. View outside Bund [dam completed]
31. In dock, forward looking aft
32. Dismantling hull plating [port side view]
33. Forward, dismantling decks [same as Plate 18]
34. After decks, plating dismantled
35. View showing after end frames & beams
36. Main Deck at No. 2 hold – showing distortion
37. Bund completed [note the bow of the vessel shows plating removed]
38. Forward, hull plating dismantled
39. After, hull plating dismantled
40. Beams, preparatory to lifting out [note they are numbered]
41. View at bow [starboard view]
42. View showing E. Room casing dismantled
43. Starboard side framework
44. Dismantling bow plating

Reconstruction, December 1918

45. Frame setting
46. Upper Deck beams in position
47. Upper & Shade Deck beams in position
48. View forward, showing beams
49. Fitting bow plating [same as Plate 41]
50. Fitting hull plates, starboard
51. Fitting hull plates, port
52. View showing plating being lifted in position
53. Fitting hull plating, starboard
54. View showing plates bolted up
55. Starboard bow plates bolted up
56. Finishing hull plates, port
57. Hull plating completed, port
58. Fitting forward Shade Deck plating
59. Fitting Bridge Deck plating
60. Forward Shade Deck plating completed
61. After Shade Deck and Houses completed
62. View showing Saloons reconstructed
63. After Shade Deck, planks being laid
64. After Shade Deck, planking completed
65. Shade Deck aft, deck laid and houses erected
66. Laying Boat Deck planking
67. View showing removal of Bund [view across port bow]
68. Bund nearly removed [front view from water]
69. Bund removed [bow view taken from the water]
70. Alongside pontoon, shipping masts
71. Coming out of dock [starboard bow view]
72. Out of dock [starboard near broadside view]
73. Shipping foremast [view on deck]
74. Lowering mast in place
75. Shipping after mast
76. Floating crane shipping masts [port near broadside view]
77. Shipping boat deck tanks
78. Tanks in position
79. Vessel completed [port broadside view]
80. Entering Kidderpore Dry dock [starboard bow view taken from dock side – note the smoke from the funnel…]
81. View of the aft end [taken from starboard looking aft from the dock side]
82. View from Forward [bow view, slightly to the starboard side]
83. Fitting propellers [starboard view looking aft from the bottom of the dry dock]
84. Leaving Kidderpore Dock [starboard bow view taken from dock side – note the smoke from the funnel…]
85. Bunkering at buoys
86. Loading cargo at No. 8 Moorings
87. View of plate furnace plant
88. Loaded – proceeding towards Outram Ghat
89. View of 1st Saloon
90. [Print missing] Going alongside Outram Ghat
91. View of Smoke Room
92. Embarking passengers 4th January. Sailed 6am 5th January 1920 [port broadside view]
93. Ready for sea [Ship portrait - Port broadside view, alongside quay]

Object Details

ID: ALB0537
Type: Photograph album
Display location: Not on display
Date made: circa 1920
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 375 mm x 268 mm x 22 mm