Irrawaddy Flotilla Co. Ltd. photograph album relating to steamers and company residences.

Contents (plate number):
Lanmadan Jetties: “Mindoon & two Express Steamers alongside; Sampans in foreground with Rice for “Mindoon”. Deep-sea steamers in distance [Probably paddle steamer “Mindoon II” (1912), just off stern view – Other vessels unidentified] - Negative number: B3922(A)

Kemmendine Road – Bungalow in course of erection, July 1921
[View of the right side of the bungalow] - Negative number: B3922(B)
[View of the left side of the bungalow] - Negative number: B3922(B)
[Very similar to No.2] - Negative number: B3922(B)

[Paddle steamer “Momein” (1885) ran aground]
Steamer Momein grounded at Kyangyat – 25th July 1919 [Direct at stern view of “Momein” (1885)] - Negative number: B3922(G)
“Momein” aground at Hyangyat [Port just off stern view of “Momein” (1885) – Another double decked steamer alongside on river] - Negative number: B3922(F)

P.S. “Schwelan”, completed 1918 [Starboard broadside view of paddle steamer “Schwelan” (1917)] - No negative number
Creek Steamer “Pomo”, added to fleet 1918 [Port broadside view of double decked twin screw steamer “Pomo” (1918)] - Negative number: B3922(E)

[Steam Pilot Launch “Haka” (1916)]
[No caption – Port broadside view] - Negative number: B3921(X)
[No caption – Starboard broadside view] - Negative number: B3921(X)

Sternwheel Steamer “Sarak” – Yarrow & Co. Ltd. (hull built at Esquimalt B.C.) [Starboard view of “Sarak” (1917), built in British Columbia] - Negative number: B3921(V)
Wooden Pontoons built 1917 as landing stages: 4 (with roofs) 75’x 20’, 2 (minus roofs) 50’x 18’ [Shows one roofed pontoon] - Negative number: B3921(N)
Paddle Steamer “Kansi” at anchor (7/7/17) [Starboard broadside view of “Kansi” (1917), a paddle steamer used as feeder vessel] - Negative number: B3921(T)

[Wreck of double decked twin screw steamer “Mungo” (1914) – Just off stern views taken from the bank]
At half flood [handwritten caption on print] - Negative number: B3921(L)
At low water [handwritten caption on print} - Negative number: B3921(L)

[No caption – Starboard quarter view of launch “Kelvin” (1910) – Actually must be linked to Nos.20 to 26 “Kelvin on trial”] - Negative number: B3921(I)
[No caption – Shows a portrayed staff group of 23 European men in front of a building] - Negative number: B3921(K)
Paddle steamer “Shweli” – Built 1914 [Port broadside view of “Shweli” (1914)] - Negative number: B3921(S)
[No caption – Starboard bow view of self propelled steam barge “Thayet” (1909)] - Negative number: B3921(J)

Launch “Kelvin” running Trials on Gareloch – “Kelvin” on trial [Launch “Kelvin” (1910) – Photographs Nos. 20 to 26 all show the launch on the open sea at full steam with 7 men visible on board. They are very similar, sometimes even identical]
[Starboard bow view – distant view] - Negative number: B3921(G)
[Starboard quarter view – distant view] - Negative number: B3921(G)
[Starboard broadside view – clear and closer view] - Negative number: B3921(G)
[Starboard quarter view – Vessel dark] - Negative number: B3921(G)
[Identical to No.22] - Negative number: B3921(H)
[Identical to No.23] - Negative number: B3921(H)
[Similar to Nos.23 and 25 but more distant] - Negative number: B3921(H)

[No caption – “P. KLIER – RANGOON” handwritten on the negative – Shows an impressive just off bow view of paddle steamer “Kobe” (1908) and double decked twin screw steamer “Kanoungto” (1903) on the slipway with many men – Natives and Europeans] - Negative number: B3921(E)

Views of the Oil Flat “Hastings”, No.129, struck by lightning above Prome, 26 September 1906. [Nos.28 to 31 show views of the wreck after the explosion]
[Rather distant view – Broadside view] - Negative number: B3921(F)
[Rather distant view – Port broadside view] - Negative number: B3921(F)
[Shows the hull from above] - Negative number: B3921(F)
[A close view of the distorted hull] - Negative number: B3921(F)

[No caption – Staeboard broadside view of stern wheel steamer “Amyen” (1888)] - Negative number: B3921(C)

[Explosion of Oil Flat No.125 “Lytton” (1901)]
Piece of Oil Flat No.125 showing force of explosion. (24.12.06) [Shows a large piece of metal next to workshops] - Negative number: B3921(A)
Explosion of Oil Flat No.125, photograph taken six minutes after occurrence. (24.12.06) [View taken from opposite bank – Shows large clouds of black smoke raising from the river in the distance – Passengers and cargo ships moored in the foreground – Creek launch crossing] - Negative number: B3921(A)
Oil flat No.125, three minutes after explosion. (24.12.06) [Looks very similar to No.34] - Negative number: B3921(D)
Oil Flat No.125, twenty minutes after explosion. (24.12.06) [Shows a much closer view taken from the river – Many boats all around to watch the event] - Negative number: B3921(D)
Oil Flat No.125, twenty minutes after the event. (24.12.06) [taken from a different angle than No.36 – Backlighting] - Negative number: B3921(D)
View showing deck wreckage on Oil Flat No.125. (24.12.06) [Close direct at bow view – Shows the very damaged hull still aside on the slip – Photograph obviously taken the day after the event] - Negative number: B3921(B)
View of Oil Flat No.125, the day after explosion. (24.12.06) [Broadside view taken from the bottom of the slipway] - Negative number: B3921(B)
Explosion on Oil Flat No.125 (“Lytton”), at Dalla Dockyard on the 24th December 1906. Damage to Boiler Shed [Just off stern view taken from the river] - Negative number: B3921(M)
Burnt Flat No.125 Work of dismantlement commencing. (24.12.06) [Shows many workers inside the hull – View taken from above] - Negative number: B3921(M)

Sternwheel steamer “Sarak” [Starboard broadside view of “Sarak” (1917)] - Negative number: B3922(I)
Sternwheel steamer “Sima”. Hull built by Yarrow & Co. Ltd. Esquimalt, British Columbia, 1917 [Starboard bow view of “Sima” (1919)] - Negative number: B3922(H)
Rock Cutter “Pounder”. Built 1914 [Starboard broadside view of dredger, rock puncher, sand sucker and salvage stern wheel steamer “Pounder” (1914)] - Negative number: B3921(Q)
Single-Decked Sternwheel Steamer “Pima” (built 1914) [Port broadside view of “pima” (1914), used here as a cargo steamer] - Negative number: B3921(O)

Moulmein Engineers Bungalow. Built 1918 - Negative number: B6536/30
[No caption – Shows a line of bungalows] - Negative number: B6536/35
[No caption – Shows a line of bungalows, maybe facing those of No.47, with a railway between them] - Negative number: B6536/31
[No caption – Shows larger buildings than Nos.47 and 48] - Negative number: B6536/34
Mandalay Agency House. 1918 - Negative number: B6536/32
Porch. Mandalay Agency House - Negative number: B6536/36

Tug “Mekong”. Built 1917 [Starboard broadside view of “Mekong” (1917)] - Negative number: B3921(R)
Mail Steamer “Japan” [Port bow view of paddle steamer “Japan” (1904)] - Negative number: B3921(P)
Paddle steamer “Kansi” under steam [Port bow view of “Kansi” (1917), a paddle steamer used as feeder vessel – Large four-mast merchant sails in the background] - Negative number: B3921(U)
[No caption – Starboard bow view of steam pilot launch “Haka” (1916)] - Negative number: B3921(W)


[Paddle steamer “Momein” (1885) ran aground]
Momein aground at Kyangyat [This view obviously belongs to the same series as Nos.5 and 6 – Shows a port just off bow view of “Momein” ran aground] - Negative number: B3922(D)
Steamer “Momein” aground at Kyangyat [In pencil in margin: “Rescue with – [?] deck” – Direct at bow view of “Momein” with an unidentified small paddle steamer alongside on the river] - Negative number: B3922(C)


Unnumbered: “Takada” No.45 [Handwritten caption in pencil at the back of a loose photograph of “Takada” No.45 (1914), a passenger/cargo liner of the British India Steam Navigation Company – “No.5087” on the print – “From Maclure, Macdonald & Co – 2 Bothwell [?], Glasgow” on the back]

Object Details

ID: ALB0296
Type: Photograph album
Display location: Not on display
Date made: circa 1900-1920
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 280 mm x 382 mm
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