A Tongkung type junk at Singapore

A port broadside view of a Tongkung type junk anchored at Singapore. She is ketch rigged and has a bowsprit, two masts fitted with gaffs and the mizzen mast has a boom. She has an awning rigged aft of the mizzen. The photographer was at Singapore on four occasions during 1937 and 1938: 9 April to 1 May 1937, 13 January to 26 February 1938, 9 March to 23 March 1938 and 17 September to 30 September 1938.

Object Details

ID: P33923
Type: Rolled film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Waters, David Watkin
Places: China
Vessels: Tongkung type
Date made: 1937-1938
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Waters Collection