Irrawaddy Flotilla Co. (3) Vessels, Company Buildings, Captains & Various

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Irrawaddy Flotilla Company

Boats, Seaplanes, Buildings and Captains
photos from the collection of

Capt. Hugh J. Chubb

The collection is held at the National Museums Liverpool - www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk
Curator of Photographs - Anne.Gleave@liverpoolmuseums.org.uk

Permission to publish the contents of this page is courtesy of the Maritime Museum and Archive, Liverpool.

Ref: SAS 29/10/5

No. 2, Ava, after the fire, 1902

No. 3, Borneo

No. 4, Baby sternwheeler 9 inch draught

No. 5, Curlew, Port Commissioner's H.... Barge

No. 6, Chin, Pilot Launch

No. 8. Launch Wren

No. 9. Falam

No. 11. Haka, sister ship to Chin etc...

No. 13. Haka

No. 15. Hlaing, Port Commissioner's Tug

No. 16. Katha, on No. 7 slip

No. 17. Kyun, after collision, 1909

No. 18. Lanpya, Supdt. of Pilot's Launch

No. 19. Pounder, Flotilla dredger

No. 20. Mungo, after collision

No. 21. Tug Salween, 1898

No. 22. Soho after collision

No. 23. Tay

No. 25. Tiddim

Ref:- Box 3

Irrawaddy Flotilla Co. insignia

Design for Handbook Cover. issued for the British Empire Exhibition, 1924 by A.L. Haswell Miller

Share Certificate. bearing the name of Graham Haworth

478 Pazundaung Foundry – Taken from river bank at end of Dawbong Sr. The pucca bldgs. on left of entrance is the Durwans Qtrs. The four circular tanks are used for water storage and were taken from Express Steamers several years ago.

479 Pazundaung Foundry. Taken from Bulloch Bros. Mill, shows complete bldgs. with railway siding into compound & two vessels on slips. The bldgs. in the immediate foreground belong to Bulloch Bros. but our boundary fence can be clearly seen in the centre of the photo.

480 Pazundaung Foundry – Office with the end of main buildings. Taken from across Lower Pazundaung Rd.

481 Pazundaung Foundry – Showing the frontage into Pazundaung Rd. and on left full length of bldgs. in Dawbong St.

483 Heading says - Dalla Dockyard Staff, 1890 Top of photo has the following names left to right:- Turnbull, Prentice, Kirk, Stewart, Blacke....? McPherson.? Bottom of photo left to right:- Black, Macdonald, Starky,? Brown, Robertson, Whitton.

482, Botatoung Depot, 1928

484, Dalla Dockyard 1882 – viewed from Dalla village

485, Dalla Dockyard 1890 – P.S. “Momein” and flats

486 Dalla Building Sheds, Workshops, Dock & Ship. Dalla Dockyard 1890

487, Dalla Workshops.

488, Dalla Dockyard, Carpenters workshop

489, Dalla Dockyard Foundry

490 Lower Coal Godown (4) & Coal Godown Supt's. House

491 Upper Coal Godowns (6) (The name of Wagstaff & Co. Rangoon is printed in left hand corner of this photo)

492, Dalla Boat Stores c. 1900

493, Dalla Boat Depot c. 1880

494, Dalla 1880

496, Front of Machine Shops, office above

497, Dalla, Carpenters Shop

498, Dalla, Building Shed

499, Dalla, Foundry

500, Dalla, Machine Shop

501, Dalla, Machine Shop

502, Dalla Dockyard Superintendent's house

503, Dalla Dockyard Foremen's houses

504, Dalla Dockyard Foremen's houses

505, Dalla Jetty

506, Dalla, Erecting Slipway No. 6, Side Slip

507, Dalla, Erecting Slipway

508, Dalla, West Slip, B. R., S.S. Bassein on slip.

Image 509, Wooden Pontoons built in 1917 as Landing Stages, 4 (with roofs) 75’ x 20’ 2 (minus roofs) 50’ x 198’

510, Dalla, No. 6 Side Slip. P.S. Panthay 11 and Flat 74

511, Dalla Dockyard, Upper Floor of New Stores Bldg. 1931

512, Dalla Dockyard, Upper Floor of New Stores Bldg. 1931

513, Dalla Dockyard, New Stores Building and New Fitting Shop, Built 1931

514, Dalla Dockyard, New Stores Building and New Fitting Shop, Built 1931

515, Dalla Dockyard Improvements. New Electric Winches for No. 1 (Broadside) Slipway

516, Dalla, Slipway.

517, Dalla No. 7 Slip

518, Dalla No. 7 Slip

519, S.S. Bandoola

520

521, No. 498, 1902,

522, Maymyo House

523, 1902

524, S.S. Borneo,

525, Launch of Pilot Brig Kyauktan

526, Launch of Pilot Brig Kyauktan, She was the second Pilot Brig for Port of Rangoon, 1st was Guide circa, 1902-03

528, Launch of P.S. Pekin by Po Kims daughter Dalla Dockyard 1887, Kho Kim's daughter, who christened Pekin 1887

529, Launch of Steamer P.S. Pekin, 1887

530, Launch of P.S. Canton, 1887, She was launchced by a small chinese girl.

531, From a sketch by Capt. Rimmer, Launch of P.S. Dufferin, 1886

532, Mawers Point Shipyard, Burma River Transport Co. vessels on slipways, 1909

533, Mawers Point Shipyard, vessels for Burma River Transport Co. building 1909

534, Mawers Point Shipyard, 1909, Burma River Transport oil flat under erection.

535, Mawers Point Shipyard, oil flat and paddlers Tantabin and Thurrawa, 1909, vessels of Burma River Transport Co. under construction

536, Pazundaung Foundry, wagon bodies built for Burma Cement Co.

537, Pazundaung Foundry, wagon bodies built for Burma Cement Co.

540, Peck Oil Engine and Pump as fitted to I.F.C's. "Nymph" 1904. The first oil engine in Burma, replaced by steam engine in 1906.

541, SS Yomah on fire at Yenangyoung in 1904

542, SS Yomah on fire at Yenangyoung

543, SS Yomah on fire at Yenangyoung in 1904

544, Pilot Brig Kyauktan, 1903 decorated in honour of Lady Barnes arrival per S.S. Mandalay

545,Flooded fields near Wakema, 1890

546, S.S. Kennedy ashore on Shwelaung Bund, 1890

547

548

549

550

551

552

553,Tantabin

554, Pulu wreck

555,Tantabin

556, Swing Bridge for Port Commissioners, 1928

557, Rangoon Foundry, Petrol storgae tanks for Burma Oil Co. 1928

558, Rangoon Foundry, 1928

559, Rangoon Foundry, 1928

560, Slips at Rangoon Foundry, 1930, taken 15.2.30. high water 1.30p.m. tide - 0.5ft.

561, Slips at Rangoon Foundry, 1930, taken 15.2.30. high water 1.30p.m. tide - 0.5ft.

562, Slips at Rangoon Foundry, 1930, taken 15.2.30. high water 1.30p.m. tide - 0.5ft.

563, Slips at Rangoon Foundry, 1930, taken 24th Feb. 1932, time 1.30p.m. tide - 0.5ft.

564, Slips at Rangoon Foundry, 1930, taken 24th Feb. 1932, time 1.30p.m. tide - 0.5ft.

565, Slips at Rangoon Foundry, 1930, taken 24th Feb. 1932, time 1.30p.m. tide - 0.5ft.

566, 567, and 568

569, Photo taken 13th Mar. 1937, Low water 12.18p.m. Height . 3ft.

570, Photo taken 13th Mar. 1937, Low water 12.18p.m. Height .3ft.

571, Photo taken 13th Mar. 1937, Low water 12.18p.m. Height .3ft.

572, Photo taken 24th Feb 1936, At 1.00 p.m. Low tide - 3, Rangoon Fundry Slipway

573, Taken 24th Feb. 1936 At 1.00 p.m. Low tide - 3. Rangoon Foundry Slipway

574, Taken 24th Feb. at 1.00 p.m. Low tide - 3. Rangoon Foundry Slipway.

575, Rangoon Foundry

576, Superintendent's house, Rangoon Foundry

577, Cooly Barracks, Rangoon Foundry

578, Cooly Barracks, Rangoon Foundry

579, Wharf Office, Knightly St. Rangoon

580, Kemendine Property

581, Kemendine Property

582, Kemendine Property

583, Moulmein Agency

584, Superintending Engineers house, Moulmein

585, Dockyard, Moulmein

586, Moulmein Dockyard, S.S. Mibaya on slip at Moulmein,1901. She was a bought vessel.

587, Machine shop, Moulmein

588, Engineers bungalow, Moulmein, 1918

589, Engineers bunglaow, Moulmein, 1918

590, First Agency at Bassein

591, Bassein Agency

592, Coal Godowns, Bassein

593, FLotilla Coal Depot, Bassein, 1890

594 Kyauktan Bungalow, rented to Govt. as a Courthouse

595, Kyauktan Bungalow, rented to Govt. as a Courthouse

596. Yandoon Agency House, built in 1876

597, Yandoon East Ghunt, at town, circa 1888

598, Yandoon Agnecy

599, Photo taken before and after operations for removal of Beda Weed (Water Hyasinth) in Daga River 1921

601, Donabyu Godown, 1890

602, Henzada Town Godown, 1888

603, Henzada Agency

604, Pakokku Agency

605,Bhamo Agency

606, Prome Agency

607, Myingyan Agency

608, Henzada Agency House, East on Office Side

609, Myanoung Agency House.

610, Monywa Agency House, completed July 1940

611, Godown at Prome, Lower Ghaut 1890, This building was still standing in 1946

612, Prome Agency, South View, circa 1891, Building demolished in 1920

613, Thayetmyo Godown, 1888

614, Thayetmyo Agency House, Capt. Sevenoaks Agent, 1887

615, Pakokku Shore L.W. Season, FLat 36 Thangwa and P.S. Jingko alongside. Photo taken 1890

616, Pakokku Agents House, 1890

617, Pakokku Agents House, Removed from the old site and rebuilt on about 1921. also has a description of the house

618, Pakokku Godown, 1890. At ... Town Ghaut next to Agency House

619, Myangyan Sandbank Godown, H.W. Season, 1890

620, Myngyan Cargo Godown, 1890

621, Myngyan Cargo Godown, 1890

622, Myngyan Office, 1900

623, Myingyan Agency House, 1890, either Mr Wingate or Capt. Alexander was Agent at the time.

624, Myemoe Agency 1890, Capt. Crump was murdered here by dacoits.

625, Mandalay, The King's Palace, 1885

626, Mandalay Agency House and Choung, view of the old Agency, photo was taken 1906

627 Mandalay Agency

628, Mandalay Office, once the King's Ice House 1854

629 Timber Yard, at Mandalay

630, Saw Mill at Mandalay

631, Mandalay Shore

632, Mandalay Shore Cargo Godown, 1890

633, Mandalay Coal Depot, 1890

634, Mandalay Agency Office, this building was the King of Burma's Ice house, built in 1855

635, Superintendant's house at Mandalay Dockyard, 1887, Paula Hislop on swing, William Hislop, late chief Engr. S.S. Japan as a boy in foreground. Mr Hislop's son and daughter may be seen.

636, Mandalay Dockyard, the workshop and fire engine in 1887.

637, Mandalay Dockyard under flood 1906, Panorama No. 2 facing east.

638, Mandalay Dockyard under flood 1906, facing west from S.E. corner

639, Mandalay Dockyard Saw Mill, from S.E. corner facing east.

640, Mandalay Dockyard under flood, 1905, Panorama No. 1. facing east.

641, Mandalay Dockyard under flood, 1906, Dockyard west from N.E. corner

642, Agency House, Bhamo, 1887

642a, Awaiting arrival of S.S. Taping with H.E. Governor of Burma, at Bhamo 1920, Capts. Medd and Jones DSP

643, Bhamo Cargo Godown, circa 1890-1900

644, I.F.C. ltd. House for clerk on Bhamo Foreshore property.

645, Dedaye Waterfront, circa 1920

646, Bhamo 1890, The low water Caravan Ghaut in H.W. Season

647, Captains Club at Mandalay Shore, Est. 1887 burnt 1942.

648, P.S. Shwemyo, Football Team Bhamo, Capt. Chubb and Mr Frain, 1928

649, Wreck of Henderson Lines S.S. Ava in Moulmein river, 6th Feb. 1905

650, Landing elephants from S.S. Arracan onto G.W.R. tender at Plymouth, 15th May 1923.

650a Baby elephant coming ashore from Taping at Mandalay, 1928

651, Nyaunghla Ghaut

652, C.O. C.E. & 2.E. of Java, 1919

653, R.I.M. Steamer Sladen 1919

654, Minhla Fort, 1919

655, Sea Plane Zinyaw at hanger at Pazaundaung, 1935

656, Zinyaw about to take off at Pazaundaung Foundry, 1935

657, Zinyaw at Pazundaung Creek, 1934.

658 Zinyaw at pontoon, 1934

659 Zinyaw at Meegyoungye, 1934

660 and 661 Seaplane at pontoon in Pazaundaung Creek, 6.12.1937

662 and 663 Seaplane at pontoon, 3.11.1934 and just after leaving

664, Seaplane taxiing before rising

665 Seaplane at pontoon in Pazaundaung Creek and Govt. dockyard in background.

667a Seaplanes at Pauzandayng

667b Seaplanes at Pauzandayng

667c Seaplanes at Pauzandayng

667d Seaplanes at Pauzandayng

668 Karaweik nearing completion, Oct. 1936

669 Karaweik nearing completion, Oct. 1936

670 Image 670, Karaweik off on test flight, Oct. 1936

671 Karaweik VT-AH1 and Zwyaw VT-AFZ at hanger, Pazundaung Foundry, Oct. 1936

672, 5 photos of Zinyaw after having capsized in Bassein river on 7th Nov. 1936

673, Shway Lin-yon VT-AIJ Photo received from Imperial Airways Ltd. for certificate of air worthiness.

674, Loss of Shway Lin-yon by fire 13 / 8 / 1937,

674, Loss of Shway Lin-yon by fire 13 /8 / 1937,

675 Karaweik leaving hanger, 9.11.1937

676 Off to Paz – As per Contra, Jan. 1937.

676 Off to Paz – Preparing, Jan. 1937.

676, Seaplane Karaweik, 1937

677, How the Viceroys mails were delivered 13. Jan. 1937

678, How the seaplane is berthed at Mandalay

679, 1,

679, 2, Re-erection of Karaweik VT AHI Oct. 1936 b and c

679, 3. Re-erection of Karaweik VT AHI Oct. 1936 b and c

679, 4. Re-erection of Karaweik VT AHI Oct. 1936 b and c

679 5. At Pazaundaung Foundry. 1936

681, Recruits for Irrawaddy Flotilla, Photo taken on board S.S. Henzada 8.5.1919, 2 mates T.W. Cauker, H.J. Chubb, Troan Simpson, G. Jones, A. Reid. taken by T. McInroy

682, New Offices, Rangoon. Photograph of Architects drawing, Sept. 1931. Right hand corner of photo has A.G. Bray, ARIBA. M.I. Struct E. Chartered Architect, Rangoon