A flat type cargo sampan being sculled at Shanghai

A starboard side view, taken ahead of the beam, of a flat cargo type sampan being sculled at Shanghai. She has no shelter amidships and her hull is punt-like. The image is very slightly unsharp. The photographer's ship was in Northern Chinese waters in the periods 3 June to 10 October 1937 and 8 June to 4 September 1938.

Object Details

ID: P34466
Type: Rolled film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Waters, David Watkin
Places: China
Date made: 1937-1938
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Waters Collection