Description
- Abstract:
- A lighter (small barge) heads toward an imposing steamship. Note the rounded bow of the steamship. The shape of the bow was thought to push apart water with a thinner stern to let water pass behind the vessel more quickly, and was a standard shape for all large ships, until American naval architect John Griffith's 1845 breakthrough, The Rainbow, featuring a pointed bow and sleeker hull.
- Notes:
- White border; overexposure on right side
Access Conditions
- Rights
- No Copyright - United States
- Restrictions on Use
- Collection is open for research.
Citation
"A lighter heads toward a large steamship on Yokohama Bay"
(1923).
Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:54009/
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Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923
...In August 1923, William Dana Reynolds, with his wife Vera Hunt Reynolds and their young daughter Helen embarked from Honolulu on the Japanese steamship Taiyo Maru, bound for Yokohama. While at sea, the ship experienced and survived a tsunami only …