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Little Shipmates – seafaring pets
Australian National Maritime Museum
Cats, dogs, monkeys and birds have been cherished on board ships for as long as people have made sea voyages. Sydney photographer Sam Hood went on board thousands of ships between 1900 and the 1950s. This selection of photographs shows how much pets meant to many seafarers.
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Seaman with a cat and kitten
Sam Hood about 1910
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Steel Beach – ship breaking in Bangladesh
Australian National Maritime Museum
Photographs by Andrew Bell
At the town of Sitakunda on the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh, Andrew Bell photographed the shipbreaking industry. At low tide the vast mud flat on the Bay of Bengal is an industrial wasteland of oil tankers, and passenger liners that have reached the end of their sailing lives.
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In the first light of day workers carry empty barrels out to the hulks. The barrels are filled with waste oil from the sump which is sold for firing bricks. |
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