The cargo liner City of Pretoria (1947) entering the South Dock Lock entrance to the West India Docks from Blackwall Reach, London.
A slightly distant port bow view, taken from wide off the bow, of the cargo liner City of Pretoria (1947) entering the South Dock Lock entrance to the West India Docks from Blackwall Reach, London. She has a rope ladder deployed over her side and is passing between the two arms of the bascule bridge which takes Preston's Road over the lock. A shore gang have put her bow line over a bollard on the lock side overseen by the lock master. The bridge obscures her stern. A tug is standing off her starboard bow.
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Object details
| ID: | P37520 |
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| Type: | Negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Grierson, Alec R. |
| Places: | West India Docks |
| Vessels: | City of Pretoria (1947) |
| Date made: | 14 Sep 1962 |
| People: | Cammell Laird & Co Ltd |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | 62 mm x 62 mm |