colombo

Photo: A.W. Plate & Co.

Further view taken from Orsova in May 1973 - at Colombo See comments for ship identification

Loading coal in Colombo

Regrettably poor shot of the Deebank, August 1953 at Colombo, Ceylon, as it was.

LA MARSEILLAISE - SOMALI - Unknown. &

Taken during a Bhuddist festival in Colombo.

There was some kind of religious festival on during one of our visits to Colombo and they had lots of shrines and illuminations illustrating the life of Bhuddda.

Colombo in Ceylon, or Sri Lanka. Whatever,- it's the steam crane in the foreground that is the main pictorial content. Hissing and clanking and fussing about. It really should have been a video clip, in colour - with smell. The picture probably taken in the thirties.

Cristoforo Colombo, 1954/29.191 grt. Lisbon, Sept.1972

A 1968 shot of City of Colombo in a South Shields drydock. North Shields over the river. Houlder's Hornby Grange behind tallest crane on right. See:- http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=4112 City of Colombo built 1956, 7739tons gross, 507ft long, 66ft beam, 15 knot motor ship.

September 1970 and some interesting local sailing vessels come and go within Colombo Harbour. Photo taken from British Sovereign whilst discharging cargo from Kharg Island, Persian Gulf. What are these sailing ships called??