The Bridge of the SS Mongolia

Date:
8 May 1923
Reference:
BL26607/023
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

The SS Mongolia was ordered by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, who commissioned this photograph. It is one of a series of photographs of the vessel taken on this date. The ship was manufactured by Sir W G Armstrong, Whitworth and Company Limited, who commissioned other images in this series to be taken. Between 1922 and 1938 sailed a route between London and Sydney, Australia. These images were taken three days before her maiden voyage on the 11th of May 1923. The Bedford Lemere daybook and Ships Register entries for this series of photographs have the vessel's correct name 'SS Mongolia' crossed through and replaced with 'SS Moldavia'; this could be due to a planned renaming of the vessel as such in honour of an earlier P&O ship of that name lost to an enemy torpedo in 1918. However, the renaming does not appear to have been actually carried out. The name 'Mongolia' is just legible on a brass plaque in shown in this image.

Content

This is part of the Series: HBL01/01 Series Of Photographic Negatives And Prints; within the Collection: HBL01 The Bedford Lemere Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

Keywords

Early 20th Century Watercraft, Water Transport