SS Rajapuri at a dockside

Maker
Unknown
Production date
1890
 Description
View of a 'shade decked vessel' with a continuous upper deck of light construction. Side openings have been boarded up for the passage to India. She has a single funnel, and fore-and-aft rigged sails furled against the foremast and mainmast. Behind her is a coal train. The coal hoist was nearby at Grangemouth Docks.
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Production date
1890
Subject person
Subject place
Grangemouth Docks/Grangemouth area
Subject notes
SS Rajapuri was a steel screw steamer of 236 tonnes built by the Grangemouth Dockyard Co in 1887 (?) for the Bombay Steam Navigation Co. Her sister ship Vaitarna sank in a storm.
Accession number
P09427

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