Lascar Seamen at work and at rest, 1906
Series of Photographs showing Lascar seamen at work in the stokehole of a passenger liner (centre image) and at rest in the Home for Asiatic Seamen (bottom images). Lascar seamen were employed on many of the coal-fired steam-ships from Britain to India and Australia as they were well suited to the terrific heat from the stokeholes on these voyages
Picture No
10216848
Media ID
45990679
Size
4242px x 5495px
(5.7MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
The Illustrated London News. 1906. page 598. By Reinhold Thiele
Date
1906
