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Photo 103(24)
- Record Id:
- 040-003047705
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003047681
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025648639.0x0000fe
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 103(24)
- Title:
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Light Vessel 'Sindhi' [?at Karachi]. Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
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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 Persian Gulf where it proved of great value to shipping. Since 1920 it has been stationed off Hajamrao on the Sind coast. The light is visible at a distance of 10 miles and is of great service to shipping including country craft'.
Subjects = lightships; named vessels; Sindhi (lightship); steamers; transport; water transport
Location = Karachi; Pakistan; Sindh
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003047681
040-003047705 - Is part of:
- Photo 103 : Lighthouses and lightships in India and Burma (Myanmar). Photographer(s): Sequeira, Ignatius
Photo 103(24) : Light Vessel 'Sindhi' [?at Karachi]. Photographer: Unknown - Hierarchy:
- 032-003047681[0024]/040-003047705
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 103
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1920
- End Date:
- 1929
- Date Range:
- 1920s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known