Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the lighthouse. Typescript note on reverse of print reads: 'Muttum lighthouse is an important landfall light, lying in the path of all steamers plying between Colombo and the ports on the west coast of India. It is a solid granite octagonal tower...
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the lighthouse, ancillary buildings, breakwater and small harbour. For an earlier view see Photo 447/7 (3). Subjects = lighthouses Location = Burma; Cape Negrais; Irrawaddy; Myanmar
Port beam view of the lightship Sindhi, moored in harbour, probably at Karachi. Typescript note pasted to the reverse of the print reads: 'The vessel was built in the Royal Indian Marine Dockyard at Bombay for service off the Sind Coast. During the war it was stationed off Kais Island in the Per...
Steel lightvessel 'Thalun' built by Sir W.G. Armstrong Whitworth & Co. (Shipbuilders) Ltd. for the Government of India, 1929. Photographer: Unknown
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Starboard bow view of the lightship Thalun at her moorings in England shortly after completion. Subjects = lightships; named vessels; steamers; Thalun (lightship); transport; water transport