On board a Fukien trader type junk anchored at Shaukiwan, Hong Kong

On board a Fukien trader type junk anchored at Shaukiwan, Hong Kong. The photographer is on the port side amidships looking forward showing windlasses on either side of her mainmast. Her sails are stowed fore and aft and most of her fore and main masts are out of the picture. A number of baskets are on deck in the foreground and a large jumble of rope is abaft her foredeck. A stone sea wall and flat roofed buildings are in the 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 P34427 to P34429 are of this vessel and taken on the same occasion.

Object Details

ID: P34428
Type: Rolled film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Waters, David Watkin
Places: China
Vessels: Fukien type
Date made: 1937-1938
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Waters Collection