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| Picture No | 10216848 |
| Date | 1906 |
| Description | Lascar Seamen at work and at rest, 1906 |
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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.
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| Source | The Illustrated London News. 1906. page 598. By Reinhold Thiele. |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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