A gunboat on the Yangtze River and a hulk at Butterfield and Swire’s Bund, Nanjing (南京市)

A gunboat on the Yangtze River and a hulk at Butterfield and Swire’s Bund, Nanjing (南京市)

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: He01-064. Photo from an album (UoB reference He01) kept in the School of Oriental and African Studies Archives, London (SOAS reference PP MS 82/13). The gunboat is not HMS Argonaut, which had four funnels. See He01-060 (which depicts HMS Argonaut and other vessels, probably including this Yangtze River gunboat).

Caption in album or on mount

H.M.S. Argonaut, Nanking Butterfield and Swire’s Bund

Location

Nanjing

Estimated Date

1900-1904

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library, University of London

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