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M.V. HOUSTON CITY, photograph
Launch party of the M.V. HOUSTON CITY at Furness shipyard Co. Ltd., Haverton Hill-on-Tees, 29 November 1933, by Mrs Henry Mercer. The photograph shows Mr & Mrs Henry Mercer at centre with their two daughters in front of them. On Mrs Mercer's right are Gertrude Popham, Arthur Popham and Alan Reardon Smith (Sir W. Reardon Smith's grandson) Photographers stamp bottom right. The vessel got stuck on the slipway, and was floated off on the next high tide.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
2008.111/75
Historical Associations
Associated Person/Body: Reardon Smith Line
Association Type: shipping company
Date: 1933
Creation/Production
W. Haig Parry
Acquisition
Donation, 19/11/2008
Measurements
Length
(mm): 271
Width
(mm): 364
Techniques
black and white (monochrome photograph)
photograph
Material
paper
Location
In store
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