Irrawaddy Flotilla Co. Ltd. photograph album relating to various steamers and offices

Contents (plate number) – No captions but names of the ships often handwritten in pencil:
1. [Twin screw steamer “Patanan” (1874), Starboard bow view] Negative number: A9635(D)
2. [Steam pilot launch “Pluto” (1879), Starboard broadside view] Negative number: A9635(Q)
3. [Twin screw steamer “Waikema” (1879), Starboard bow view] Negative number: A9636(M)
4. [Paddle steamer “Colonel Fytche” (1867), Starboard broadside view] Negative number: A9636(J)
5. [Stern wheel steamer “Kendat” (1886), Port bow view] Negative number: A9635(I)
6. [Paddle steamer “Palow” (1879), Starboard bow view – Stern of Flat No. 95 “Meloun” (1887) seen in the background] Negative number: A9636(P)
7. [Paddle steamer “Kadoe” (1882), Starboard broadside view] Negative number: A9635(K)
8. [Handwritten in pencil: “Pakoko Office”] Negative number: A9635(L)
9. [Handwritten in pencil: “Prome Office”] Negative number: A9636(N)
10. [Handwritten in pencil: “Bhamo Office”] Negative number: A9634(Y)
11. [Handwritten in pencil: “Bassein Office” – Shows a street scene with a local cart] Negative number: A9635(C)
12. [Handwritten in pencil: “Thayetmyo Office”] Negative number: A9635(B)
13. [Handwritten in pencil: “Myingyan Office”] Negative number: A9635(A)
14. [Handwritten in pencil: “Myinmoo Office”] Negative number: A9636(T)
15. [Flat No. 73 “Tagoon” (1886), Port broadside view] Negative number: A9636(U)
16. [Paddle steamer “Dufferin” (1886), Starboard bow view, in the background – In the foreground together with a local junk is an unidentified steamer, Port just off stern view, with “Mail Steamer Chaut” on a banner – Handwritten in pencil: “Ship No. 318” and “Mandalay Mails Steamer Ghaut”] Negative number: A9636(O)
17. [Two unidentified vessels with raft and junks in the foreground – The larger steamer looks like an Irrawaddy Steamer, Starboard quarter view – Handwritten in pencil: “Bhamo Mail Steamer Ghaut”] Negative number: A9636(S)
18. [Flat No. 36 “Thongwa” (1879), Starboard just off stern view – Handwritten in pencil: “Pakoko Steamer Landing Ghaut”] Negative number: A9635(H)
19. [An unidentified screw steamer, Starboard bow view – Handwritten in pencil: “Bassein Steamer Landing Ghauts”] Negative number: A9635(F)
20. [Shows a harbour scene with people, local boats, carts and houses – On the right hand side can be seen the paddle steamer “Thambyadine” (1879), stern view – Handwritten in pencil: “Thayetmyo Steamer Landing Ghauts”] Negative number: A9635(G)
21. [Shows three flats and two steamers – Can be identified: Flat No. 88 “Pudda” (1882) and paddle steamer “Munepoor” (1887), both Starboard bow view – Handwritten in pencil: “No-1 Prome Steamer Landing Ghauts”] Negative number: A9636(V)
22. [Shows a large view – Handwritten in pencil: “No. 2 Prome Steamer Landing Ghauts” – Can be identified: paddle steamer “Mandalay” (1886), flat No. 33 “Kemmendine” (1878), flat No. 34 “Kho-Kine” (1878) and flat No. 100 “Sayfan” (1887), all Starboard bow view] Negative number: A9636(R)
23. [Handwritten in pencil: “Prome Godown”] Negative number: A9634(Z)
24. [Handwritten in pencil: “Myingyan Godown”] Negative number: A9634(U)
25. [Handwritten in pencil: “Thyetmyo Godown”] Negative number: A9634(O)
26. [Handwritten in pencil: “Bhamo Godown”] Negative number: A9633(K)
27. [Handwritten in pencil: “Donoobyew Godown”] Negative number: A9633(G)
28. [Handwritten in pencil: “Mengyada Godown” – Picturesque with pagoda in the background] Negative number: A9634(P)
29. [Handwritten in pencil: “Pakoko Godown”] Negative number: A9634(Q)
30. [Handwritten in pencil: “Mandalay Godown”] Negative number: A9633(L)
31. [Handwritten in pencil: “Mayanawny Godown”] Negative number: A9633(I)
32. [Handwritten in pencil: “Mandalay Coal Godown” – Shows a huge coal depot] Negative number: A9634(M)
33. [Handwritten in pencil: “Bassein Coal Godown”] Negative number: A9634(N)
34. [Shows a nice view of a river taken from a junk – Handwritten in pencil: “Dry Season – Bhamo Low Ghaut”] Negative number: A9633(J)
35. [Handwritten in pencil: “No. 1 Yandoon Godown – Wet Season Godown” – Shows a street scene in a village – A sign on a long stick says: “Yandoon Municipality – East Limit of IR.FLO.CO’S Anchorage”] Negative number: A9634(W)
36. [Handwritten in pencil: “No. 2 Yandoon Godown – Dry Season Godown”] Negative number: A9634(V)
37. [Shows a river bank scene on a dyke with a screw steamer in the background – Handwritten in pencil: “[?] River higher than village [?]”]Negative number: A9633(H)
38. [Double decked twin screw steamer “Antonio” (1890), Port broadside view] Negative number: A9634(X)

Object Details

ID: ALB0291
Type: Photograph album
Display location: Not on display
Date made: circa 1880-1899
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 380 mm x 470 mm
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