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pl23_ship4623.jpg

Translated as a Comfortable position for the traveller!, obviously a bit ofhumor

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Translated as a Comfortable position for the traveller!, obviously a bit ofhumor. The sailor is passing a line over the pulley to keep it from strikingend of the boom during Bouree net towing operations. Plate VIII, print 11. In: Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco. Vol. 89.

Credit

NOAA Rice Library of the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science

Photographer

J. Richard

Display Date

1911

Collection

Voyage to Inner Space