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1953 En route to Aden

Submitted by Nona on Wed, 2017-12-06 15:37
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1953

Aeneas.jpg

Submitted by jill on Wed, 2017-01-25 03:40
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1928

The Blue Funnel liners seem to have offered a fairly economical way of travelling on home leave to England. This is a photo of Cicely Warren with her daughter, Diana, on the SS Aeneas, probably on their way back to England in 1928 for my uncle, Leslie's first home leave. The SS Aeneas met a sad fate as follows:

Robert or John Mitchell Dunlop, Hong Kong 1870s

Submitted by Klaus on Sat, 2016-05-28 03:57

Photo by Lai Afong, approx. 1875

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Possibly Robert Dunlop 1848 -1909 or John Mitchell Dunlop 1858-1939, sons of James Dunlop (see photo 1). Both Robert and John Mitchell worked as a ship's engineers in the Merchant Navy during the 1870s and 1880s, as did their youngest brother William, and like them, travelled extensively, as did Andrew (see photo 50) as a master mariner.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1875
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