Mary Evans Lascars on British Ships: The Question of their Retention 12478255

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Picture No	12478255
Date	1906
Description	Lascars on British Ships: The Question of their Retention
Details	Lascars on British Ships: The Question of their Retention. "Human Salamanders":The Lascar at Work and Play. Employed on board P&O Australian Line liners - working as Coal Stokers and Chefs. A lascar was a sailor or militiaman from the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, the Arab world, and other territories located to the east of the Cape of Good Hope, who were employed on European ships from the 16th century until the middle of the 20th century.
Source	Photographs and design by Reinhold Thiele in The Illustrated London News 27 October 1906 p598
Credit	© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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