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

A distant port very near broadside view, taken from only just abaft the beam, 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 very dimly discernible in the middle background beyond the junk. In the left background are a County class heavy cruiser, either Cumberland (1926) or Suffolk (1926), and a destroyer. 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: P34543
Type: Rolled film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Waters, David Watkin
Places: China
Vessels: Swatow type
Date made: 1937-1938
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Waters Collection