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On board the Swatow trader type junk T790H anchored at Shaukiwan, Hong Kong
On board the Swatow trader type junk T790H anchored at Shaukiwan, Hong Kong. The photographer is looking forward from the centreline of the poop showing the junk's tiller on the right. Two of the crew are leaning on the accommodation shelter and another is inside the shelter. The mainsail is stowed fore and aft and is covered with matting. 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 P34234 to P34239 and P34541 are of the same vessel.
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Object Details
| ID: | P34238 |
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| Type: | Rolled film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Waters, David Watkin |
| Places: | China |
| Vessels: | Swatow type |
| Date made: | 1937-1938 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Waters Collection |