A general view of the interior of the Smoking Room aboard the SS Talma, a steam passenger liner
- Date:
- Oct 1922
- Reference:
- BL26838/005
- Type:
- Photograph (Negative)
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Description
The SS Talma was launched on the 14th of June 1923 and the interior fittings were completed on the 13th of September 1923, with this series of photographs commissioned the following month to document the interiors. The Bedford Lemere daybook and Ship Register state that the photographs were commissioned by H H Marlyn and Company Limited, who were likely to have been designers and/ or manufacturers of interior furnishing and decorations aboard the ship; however, a note in the Ships Register gives the company name of Robson and Sons, who may have been involved with the fittings for this particular room on the ship. The ship was owned and operated by the British India Steam Navigation Company, running routes between Asia and Australasia. She later operated as a troop transport ship during the Second World War, eventually being scrapped in 1949.
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
Smoking Room, Early 20th Century Watercraft, Water Transport