Career of Captain H. P. Bird, MN

A cloth and card album containing 107 b/w photographic prints and postcards, with newspaper cuttings relating to the early career of Captain H. P. Bird as an apprentice on Inverbank, covering the following themes:

Ships: Inverbank (1924), K0 Kondor (1926), E9 [Buenos Aires class destroyer], Tymeric (1919)

Topographical locations: Panama Canal, Huelva, Kamaishi Japan, Calcutta, Rangoon, Tocopilla Chile, Melbourne Australia, Buenos Aires, New South Wales, Nauru Island, Durban.

Activities: loading vessel, painting ship, fire at sea, deck details such as compass and windlass, photographs of officers and crew

Object Details

ID: ALB1405
Type: Photograph album
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Bird, Henry P.
Date made: Circa 1937-1940
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 210 mm x 254 mm x 30 mm