Low Tide, Custom House Ghat [Calcutta]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1725 in the negative. General view of the ghat at low water, looking across the mud towards boats beached on the riverbank, with sailing ships at their moorings in the Hugli beyond.
Landing goods near the Custom House [Calcutta]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1726 in the negative. View of sailing ships (some with auxiliary steam) moored on the Hugli at Custom House Ghat, with off-loaded barrels in the foreground.
Bombay Harbour. The yachtlike Royal Indian Marine Steamer 'Clive'. On her port side is another ship cadaver in the last stages of disintegration. To all outward appearance she was many years prematurely delivered to the knacker's yard. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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The Dharookhana, site of the H.E.I.C's gunpowder factory at Mazagon, the foreshore where ships were run aground for breaking up. This work was done entirely by sledge hammers in the hands of 'ghattis' or men from the Western Ghauts, more sinewy and powerful than their compatriots of Bombay City.
Bombay Harbour. The S.S. Bahaduri. Many years commodore ship of the Bombay Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. The binnacle compass by which she had been steered through 45 years of monsoon & fair weather watches the progress of demolition. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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The Dharookhana, site of the H.E.I.C's gunpowder factory at Mazagon, the foreshore where ships were run aground for breaking up. This work was done entirely by sledge hammers in the hands of 'ghattis' or men from the Western Ghauts, more sinewy and powerful than their compatriots of Bombay City.
Shipbreaking Yard, Bombay. Name of steamer unrecorded. The one on the right is the Royal Indian Marine Ship 'Clive'. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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The Dharookhana, site of the H.E.I.C's gunpowder factory at Mazagon, the foreshore where ships were run aground for breaking up. This work was done entirely by sledge hammers in the hands of 'ghattis' or men from the Western Ghauts, more sinewy and powerful than their compatriots of Bombay City.
'Lot's Wife', Bombay Harbour. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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The government shooner used by the Commisioner of Salt and Excise Department of the Bombay Presidency. In the left background is Trombay Island (so-called). On the right is Karanja. Two toneys or dug-out canoes are near ship.
Bombay Harbour, S.S. Rukmavati. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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Landing passangers by boat at Elephanta, one of the daily calls on her service of the eastern islands and creek of Bombay Harbour. In the background is the southern shore of the Panwell or Ulwa Creek.
Toolsoonda Cove, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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Genre: Landscape Photography An almost embayed inlet opposite Moosakazi. It is said that the European pirates who operated in these waters between, say, 1698 and 1720, careened and provisioned their ships here. Avery, Robt. Glover in "Resolution", Bowen - "Speedy Return", "Prosperous", Captain ...
H.M.I.S 'Hindustan' 1930. Karwar, The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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Kona Point and flagstaff on the right. Modern Karwar is among the casuarina plantations. The bungalows of Government officials extend along the bright of the bay.