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Scan of contact print. I own both the negative and the contact print, on the back reads “Silvermaple, Trooping, Red Sea”. Believe this has been passed down from my uncle who saw service in WW2.
Silver Line cargo vessel, built 1927, Laings, Sunderland.
GRT 5525, NRT 3229, DWT 8907
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You can get a better - well almost better - view of one on the stbd side of the mast house.
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I had to look twice but the two "things" must be cowl vents. The vents on the forecastle are covered in the same way and if you look closely at the picture under the link (https://www.benjidog.co.uk/allen/Images/ImagesS/SILVER19.jpg) you can see them there, too.
Painted white at the outside and dark (probably red) at the inside.
In the picture above you can also see the upper part of one of the vents on the starboard side just behind the canvas cover of the truck.
But I can't remember to have seen cowl vents in that position before ...
Best regards,
Michael.
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The awning spars on the focsle are a match as is the stove pipe.
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There was a previous Silvermaple built 1927 and sunk 1944
https://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/silver.shtml
What are those two 'things' that the chap in the sola topee is standing next to?
They look like satellite dishes or the things you see on microwave communication towers.
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