Career of Captain H. P. Bird, MN
A cloth and card album containing 107 b/w photographic prints and postcards, with newspaper cuttings relating to the early career of Captain H. P. Bird as an apprentice on Inverbank, covering the following themes:
Ships: Inverbank (1924), K0 Kondor (1926), E9 [Buenos Aires class destroyer], Tymeric (1919)
Topographical locations: Panama Canal, Huelva, Kamaishi Japan, Calcutta, Rangoon, Tocopilla Chile, Melbourne Australia, Buenos Aires, New South Wales, Nauru Island, Durban.
Activities: loading vessel, painting ship, fire at sea, deck details such as compass and windlass, photographs of officers and crew
Ships: Inverbank (1924), K0 Kondor (1926), E9 [Buenos Aires class destroyer], Tymeric (1919)
Topographical locations: Panama Canal, Huelva, Kamaishi Japan, Calcutta, Rangoon, Tocopilla Chile, Melbourne Australia, Buenos Aires, New South Wales, Nauru Island, Durban.
Activities: loading vessel, painting ship, fire at sea, deck details such as compass and windlass, photographs of officers and crew
Object Details
| ID: | ALB1405 |
|---|---|
| Type: | Photograph album |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Bird, Henry P. |
| Date made: | Circa 1937-1940 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: 210 mm x 254 mm x 30 mm |
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