The Hong Kong small trader type junk T3512H under sail at Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong

A port quarter view of the Hong Kong small trader type junk T3512H under sail at Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong. Single lug sails are set on each mast and the junk's boat is on a painter astern. Some of the crew are skulling the junk. An island with three radio masts is in the left background. 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.

Object Details

ID: P34247
Type: Rolled film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Waters, David Watkin
Places: China
Vessels: Hong Kong type
Date made: 1937-1938
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Waters Collection