A view of boxes of bananas being loaded though the shell door of the refrigerated fruit carrier Jamaica Planter (1959) berthed at Montego Bay, Jamaica
A view of boxes of bananas being loaded though the shell door of the refrigerated fruit carrier Jamaica Planter (1959) berthed at Montego Bay, Jamaica. The photographer is standing in the interior of the ship looking to the shell door. A Jamaican man with a red and white check shirt is moving a box of bananas round the conveyor belt in the foreground. A second Jamaican man with a white shirt is in the background and also moving boxes of bananas along the conveyor belt into the ship. This is Slide 28 of Captain Henry P. Bird's lecture titled "Caribbean Cargoes", about his service as Second Officer on board Jamaica Planter (1959) and Port Officer for Jamaica Banana Producers Steam Ship Company based at Kingston, Jamaica from 6 January 1971 to 26 April 1971. The lecture consists of 45 slides.
Object Details
| ID: | PCT15954 |
|---|---|
| Type: | Colour transparency |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Bird, Henry P. |
| Vessels: | Jamaica Planter (1959) |
| Date made: | February 1971 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Bird Collection |
| Measurements: | Image: 27 mm x 27 mm;Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm |
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