On board a Macao salt junk anchored at Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong

On board a Macao salt junk anchored at Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong. The photographer is on the poop looking forward showing the waist and foredeck. Her lug sails are stowed and are covered with matting. A number of wooden buckets, an iron bilge pump and two cargo hatches are in the foreground. A passenger ferry steamer is alongside a pier in the right 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. Negatives numbers P34254, P34256 and P34260 were taken on board the same vessel on the same occasion.

Object Details

ID: P34260
Type: Rolled film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Waters, David Watkin
Places: China
Vessels: Macao type
Date made: 1937-1938
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Waters Collection