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Object name(s):
photograph
Brief description:
seven men on deck of ship; six mariners and a diver in a diving suit and woolly hat, man to right holding diving helmet
Collection:
Poole Museum
Associated concept:
maritime
Associated concept:
commerce
Content - activity:
diving
Content - date:
Date - earliest / single:
1900
Content - description:
seven men on deck of ship; six mariners and a diver in a diving suit and woolly hat, man to right holding diving helmet
Content - note:
diver in a post-1905 six-bolt Siebe Gorman suit, Admiralty pattern, usually Royal Navy; the sailing vessel is probably an official harbour boat; air pump appears to be fixed in a ddicated frame built over the forward hatch, so vessel used for a lot of diving work (information provided by a visiting diver 17.4.99)
Content - object:
diver
Content - person:
Allenby, Thomas
Person's association:
diver
Content - place:
Poole
Object name:
photograph
Object number:
F.9.c/0001
Object production note:
Frederick Cleaver, hairdresser and photographer, listed in Poole entries, Kelly's Directory 1899
Object production person:
Cleaver, F.
Person's association:
photographer
Object production place:
Poole
Other number:
POOMS : 1996.065
Other number type:
assigned number
Reproduction number:
f9c0001.pcx

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/7e1f9f4e-ea6b-34b5-8c30-b8769599e15b

Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/7e1f9f4e-ea6b-34b5-8c30-b8769599e15b, Poole Museum, CC BY-NC

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