Career of Captain H. P. Bird, MN.
A cloth and card album containing 94 b/w photographic prints and postcards relating to the early career of Captain H. P. Bird, covering the following themes:
Ships: Trentbank (1929), Tagelus (1945) [T2 Tanka, ex-Ackia], and Caltex Melbourne (1945)
Places: Brisbane, Sydney, Buenos Aires, Port Said, Haifa, Manila, Bombay, Aden, Nara Japan, Karachi, Kyoto and Osaka, and Athens.
Activities: photographs of crew and officers, football team at Haifa, taking sun sightings.
The album contains a number of loose items slotted into the back cover.
Ships: Trentbank (1929), Tagelus (1945) [T2 Tanka, ex-Ackia], and Caltex Melbourne (1945)
Places: Brisbane, Sydney, Buenos Aires, Port Said, Haifa, Manila, Bombay, Aden, Nara Japan, Karachi, Kyoto and Osaka, and Athens.
Activities: photographs of crew and officers, football team at Haifa, taking sun sightings.
The album contains a number of loose items slotted into the back cover.
Object Details
| ID: | ALB1406 |
|---|---|
| Type: | Photograph album |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Bird, Henry P. |
| Date made: | 1940s |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: 210 mm x 256 mm x 28 mm |