A close port side view, taken from well ahead of the beam, of the Hong Kong fisher d.w. type junk M5282A 619HC on a slipway at Hong Kong. Her port number 619HC is painted on the port side of the bow. Four men are breaming or graving the hull. Breaming is the method of clearing the hull of marine growth by setting a fire of furze or brushwood under the hull to burn off all growth. Graving is the same operation as breaming but includes paying over the cleaned bottom with tar. The photographer was in the area in the following periods: 6 to 28 May 1937; 14 October 1937 to 8 January 1938; 14 April to 4 June 1938 and 8 to 12 September 1938. Negatives numbers P34131 to P34133, P34136 to P34138 and P34145 are of the same vessel.