Irrawaddy Flotilla Co. Ltd. photograph album relating to seaplanes, Rangoon offices and Foundry, Pazundaung Foundry, and other cpmpany properties.

Contents (plate number) – Handwritten captions in black and blue ink:
Seaplane “Zinyaw” [De Havilland Fox Moth Seaplane]
1. Seaplane “Zinyaw” at hangar at Pazundaung, 1935 - Negative number: B3921(Y)
2. “Zinyaw” about to take off at Pazundaung Foundry, 1935 - Negative number: B3921(Y)
3. “Zinyaw” in Pazundaung Creek, 1934 - Negative number: B3921(Y)
4. “Zinyaw” at pontoon, 1934 - Negative number: B3921(Y)
5. “Zinyaw” at Meegyoungye, 1934 - Negative number: B3921(Y)

Rangoon Office floodlit during Jubilee Celebrations, 1935.
6. [Front view of the building] - Negative number: B6536/26
7. [Front view of the building] - Negative number: B6536/26

Pazundaung Foundry
8. Pazundaung Foundry and in front wagon bodies built for Burma Cement Co. Ltd. in 1935 - Negative number: B3921(Z)
9. [A close quarter view of a wagon body] - Negative number: B3921(Z)
10. Wagon bodies built at Pazundaung Foundry for Burma Cement Co. Ltd in 1935 [sows a line of wagon bodies with “BCCL” large printed on each of them] - Negative number: B3922(U)

Lanywa Wall – See Rangoon Letter No.385 of 22/5/34
11. [Shows a close view of Lanywa oil fields]- Negative number: B3922(U)
12. [Shows a distant view of Lanywa oil fields] - Negative number: B3922(U)

Rangoon Foundry Slipway – Taken 24th Feb. 1936 at 1-0-0 P.M. Low Tide-.3
13. [Shows slipway from the left] - Negative number: B3921(W)
14. [Shows slipway from the centre] - Negative number: B3921(W)
15. [Shows slipway from the right] - Negative number: B3921(W)


Seaplanes
16. Hintha 20-2-36 [Short Scion Senior Seaplane] - Negative number: B3922(X)

Re-erection of “Karaweik” VT-AHI at Pazundaung Foundry – October 1936 [Short Scion Senior Seaplane]
17. [Fuselage of “Karaweik” carried by many men towards the hangar] - Negative number: B3922(X)
18. [Fuselage of “Karaweik” carried by many men inside the hangar] - Negative number: B3922(X)
19. [Fuselage of “Karaweik” outside pushed from a small pier] - Negative number: B3922(X)
20. [“Karaweik” in completion inside the hangar] - Negative number: B3922(X)
21. “Karaweik” nearing completion – Oct. 1936 - Negative number: B3922(V)
22. -Ditto- [No more comments – Shows a front view of the completed plane outside the hangar with one man just beside] - Negative number: B3922(V)
23. “Karaweik” off on test flight Oct., 1936 - Negative number: B3922(V)
24. “Karaweik” VT-AHI and “Zinyaw” VT-AFZ at Hangar Pazundaung Foundry – Oct., 1936 - Negative number: B3922(V)

Photographs of “Zinyaw” after having capsized in Bassein River on 7th November, 1936.
25. [Shows the floats of the seaplane just emerging from the river] - Negative number: B3922(X)
26. [Shows the floats of the seaplane just emerging from the river with men trying to rescue it from the pier] - Negative number: B3922(X)
27. [Rescue of the seaplane] - Negative number: B3922(X)
28. [Rescue of the seaplane] - Negative number: B3922(X)
29. [Rescue of the seaplane] - Negative number: B3922(X)

30. Shway-Lin-Yon VT-AIJ for Certificate of Airworthiness – Photograph received from Imperial Airways Ltd. 17/12/36 - Negative number: B3922(X)
31. How the Viceroy’s Mails were delivered. 13/1/37 [shows a front view of an unidentified Short Scion Senior Seaplane with three officers watching towards the camera and steam pilot launch “Lanpya” (1915) in the background – Handwritten in pencil in the margin: “c/o Piner, Capts Coults[?], .. Esmonde”] - Negative number: B3922(P)
32. How the seaplane is berthed at Mandalay [shows “Karaweik” waiting on slipway] - Negative number: B3922(P)

Photo taken 13th March 1937 Low Water 12-18 P.M. Height.3’ – See Letter No.JM/302 of 22nd March 1937
33. (1.) [Shows a slipway from the right with workers cleaning the mud towards the river] - Negative number: B3922(Q)
34. (2.) [Shows the same slipway from the left with workers cleaning the mud towards the river] - Negative number: B3922(Q)
35. (3.) [Shows the same slipway from the centre with workers cleaning the mud towards the river] - Negative number: B3922(Q)

[Photographs of seaplanes – No captions]
36. [Front view of two unidentified Short Scion Senior Seaplanes in front of the hangar] - Negative number: B3922(O)
37. [Shows Shway-Lin-Yon VT-AIJ] - Negative number: B3922(O)
38. [Similar view to No.36] - Negative number: B3922(O)
39. [Similar view to No.36] - Negative number: B3922(O)
40. [A profile view of a unidentified Short Scion Senior Seaplane] - Negative number: B3922(M)

Loss of the “Shway-Lin-Yon” by fire 13/8/37 [No.41 to No.50 show “Shway-Lin-Yon” gradually burning and finally sinking]
41. 1. - Negative number: B3922(M)
42. 2. - Negative number: B3922(M)
43. 3. - Negative number: B3922(M)
44. 4. - Negative number: B3922(M)
45. 5. - Negative number: B3922(M)
46. 6. - Negative number: B3922(M)
47. 7. - Negative number: B3922(S)
48. 8. - Negative number: B3922(S)
49. 9. - Negative number: B3922(S)
50. 10. - Negative number: B3922(S)

51. Karaweik leaving Hangar 9/11/37 - Negative number: B3922(S)

[Photographs of “Zinyaw”, most of them in continuity of Nos.3, 4 and 5]
52. Seaplane at pontoon in Pazundaung Creek - 6/12/37 - Negative number: B3922(N)
53. [Similar view to No.52] - Negative number: B3922(N)
54. Seaplane at pontoon - 3/11/34 - Negative number: B3922(N)
55. Seaplane just after leaving pontoon – 3/11/34 - Negative number: B3922(N)
56. Seaplane taxi-ing before Rising - Negative number: B3922(N)
57. Seaplane at Pontoon in Pazaundaung Creek and Government Dockyard in the background - Negative number: B3922(N)
58. Zinyaw at Meegyoungue 24/11/34 [Very similar to No.5] - Negative number: B3922(N)

[Company’s properties]
59. Monywa Agency House – Completed July 1940 - Negative number: B3922(R) & B6536/29
60. Mandalay Agency House from South East [handwritten in pencil: “(built 1941)”] - Negative number: B6536/28

[Seaplanes]
61. Karaweik at Panzaundaung after flight Moulmein-Tavoy. Jan. 1937 – Pilot Esmonde [shows a profile view with pilot and a women, apparently a passenger] - Negative number: B3922(L)
62. Off to Paz – As Per Contra Jan. 1937 [shows a crew pushing the seaplane towards the river] - Negative number: B3922(L)
63. Preparing as above [shows a more distant view of the plane at the bottom of the slipway] - Negative number: B3922(L)

[Company’s properties]
64. [Handwritten in pencil: “Belmont” – Shows external view of offices] – Negative number? [Photograph hidden at the back of last-named]
65. [No caption - handwritten text in pencil at the back of the photograph: “Front view – New Mandalay Office built 1940”] - Negative number: B3922(L)
66. [No caption - handwritten text in pencil at the back of the photograph: “SE Corner taken from entrance - March 1941 - New Mandalay Office built 1940”] - Negative number: B3922(L)

67. [No caption - This much larger and older looking photograph with roughly cut edges seems to belong to another album – Shows a large storage full of ropes, barrels, tanks…] - Negative number: B6536/2


[At the very end of the album, are to be found two postcards: one showing the “School House Slayton-Minn” with comments at the back, a second one showing “Silver Medals of the Trial of the Seven Bishops – British Museum” and addressed to “Professor G. Callender. F.S.A., Royal naval College, Greenwich, SE10”. It says: “Cambridge. 14 June 1927 – Many thanks for your card. Certainly I ought to be able to make you one visit before July 21. I shall know my time better on returning from Glasgow – H.H.B.”]

Object Details

ID: ALB0293
Type: Photograph album
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 1935-1938; 1935-1941
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 332 mm x 280 mm
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