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Bird, Henry P.
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Dunlop Beaufort Ltd
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Aberdeen Boat Club Limited
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The passenger/vehicle ferry Severn Queen (1934) on the River Severn at Aust, Gloucestershire. (Negative)
[Lesvos and the Aegean Sea] (Map)
Yacht club tie
Tie
Sleeping bag
Off loading cable from the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) to a barge in La Maddalena, Sardinia, Italy (Colour transparency)
A view of a building undergoing reconstruction in Malta (Colour transparency)
A view of the cable float on the aft sheave of the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) off the coast of Crete, Greece (Colour transparency)
A group view of eight crewmen of the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) offloading spare cable at a depot in Kalamata, Greece (Colour transparency)
A view of the waterfront in Willemstad, Curacao (Colour transparency)
A view of the waterfront at Kalamata, Greece (Colour transparency)
A view looking north north east of The Church of the Holy Apostles in Kalamata, Greece (Colour transparency)
A view of Watchkeeping Officer Graham Barnet manning the ranger finder above the bridge of the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) off the coast of Crete, Greece (Colour transparency)
An elevated view of an unidentified Japanese cargo ship and the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) taken from the Upper Barrakka waterfront in Grand Harbour, Malta (Colour transparency)
A port broadside view of a schooner named Agena at moorings in Heraklion, Crete (Colour transparency)
A distant view of Gibraltar seen through a porthole on board the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) (Colour transparency)
A street view of the Mikvé Israel-Emanuel Synagogue in Willemstad, Curacao (Colour transparency)
Looking through the main arch of the Venetian Arsenal harbour structure in Heraklion, Crete (Colour transparency)
A distant view of Castries, Saint. Lucia looking south by west taken from the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) (Colour transparency)
A view of three unidentified West African fisherman in a small fishing boat alongside the motor coaster King On (1949) off Freetown, Sierra Leone (Colour transparency)
A street view of the Schooner Market on Sha Caprileskade in Willemstad, Curacao (Colour transparency)
An elevated view of Grand Harbour, Malta taken from the Upper Barrakka waterfront (Colour transparency)
Day dress
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