A personal photograph album, mainly featuring scenes on board Hong Siang, Royal/Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary, late 1930s and early 1940s.

Name: A personal photograph album, mainly featuring scenes on board Hong Siang, Royal/Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary, late 1930s and early 1940s.
Author: [China. Photograph album.]

Book Description

An album containing approx. 145 b&w photographs, mainly snapshot or postcard size, corner mounted but with two lacking, two photographs loosely inserted, with loosely inserted two menus for the M.F.A. Hong Siang for 1940 and 1942, each signed by members of the crew.

Dealer Notes

The Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary vessel Hong Siang operated in Hong Kong and other eastern waters. The images in this personal album show scenes on board ship and ashore, including what appear to be family images. The album concludes with 14 images, several captioned by hand to the rear, showing the effects of the typhoon at Hong Kong on the 2nd September, 1937; among the images are photographs of S/S Hong Peng ashore and listing,

Author [China. Photograph album.]

Binding Original cloth

Condition See description

Price: £225.00

Offered by Meridian Rare Books

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A personal photograph album, mainly featuring scenes on board Hong Siang, Royal/Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary, late 1930s and early 1940s.

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A personal photograph album, mainly featuring scenes on board Hong Siang, Royal/Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary, late 1930s and early 1940s.

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