A port side view of an Aberdeen fisher type junk under sail at Hong Kong

A slightly distant port near broadside view, taken from ahead of the beam, of an Aberdeen fisher d.w. type junk under sail at Hong Kong. She is a two masted vessel and has a lug sail set at each mast. Her boat is suspended above a boom on the port side abaft the mainmast. 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 P34141 and P34142 are of the same vessel.

Object Details

ID: P34142
Type: Rolled film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Waters, David Watkin
Places: China
Vessels: Aberdeen type
Date made: 1937-1938
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Waters Collection