Running rigging on a fisher junk at Penang

A close view of some running rigging on board a fisher junk at Penang. The photographer is looking up from the deck showing the end of a stowed lug sail. In the rigging are two single sheave blocks and one twin sheave block. The photographer was at Penang from 28 February to 7 March 1938.

Object Details

ID: P34037
Type: Rolled film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Waters, David Watkin
Places: China
Vessels: Penang type
Date made: 28 February to 7 March 1938
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Waters Collection
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