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no.1980

Launch of SS Moreton Bay

23 April 1921

View of bow of Australian liner well down the greased ways. Many workers watching. Scaffolding on left and right, cranes on left.

https://www.sankeyphotoarchive.uk/collection/view/?id=9897

no.1980

Launch of SS Moreton Bay

23 April 1921

View of bow of Australian liner well down the greased ways. Many workers watching. Scaffolding on left and right, cranes on left.

Location: Barrow Island Ward, Barrow-in-Furness Cumbria Archives Reference: BDB 86/1/7668
Sankey Number: 1980

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