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Asia (continent)

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Subject Source: Local sources

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[Flying Dragon at Port Weld, ? circa 1912], 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 3/77
Scope and Contents

138 x 79 mm. Showing the steamer Flying Dragon approaching a wharf at Port Weld. Marks (1926) provides the following description: 'Alongside the wharf lay the Flying Dragon, a small coasting vessel, which has run between Penang and Perak for the last forty years: carrying pigs, ducks, blachan, durians, dried fish and unwashed native passengers, and also perhaps more smells per ton than any vessel of her size.'

Dates: 1912
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