A distant port broadside view of a Swatow trader type junk under sail at Hong Kong

A distant port broadside view of a Swatow trader type junk under sail at Hong Kong. She has a two masted lug sail rig and her foresail is rectangular. Her rudder is not visible. The aircraft carrier Eagle (1918) 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. Negatives numbers P34542 and P34543 are of the same vessel.

Object Details

ID: P34542
Type: Rolled film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Waters, David Watkin
Places: China
Vessels: Swatow type; Eagle (1918)
Date made: 1937-1938
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Waters Collection