The 'Ben Vooar' formerly 'Cargan' moored in Ramsey behind The Mitre Hotel
Date(s): 20th century
Scope & Content: This photograph is from a collection of shipping and wreck photographs amassed by Captain Thomas Henry Corteen (Tom Corteen) between the 1930s and 1970s. The boat was purchased in 1938 when she was 22 years old and was sold to Greenock 18 January 1956.
Administration / Biographical History: For accompanying papers see MS 11514.
Language: eng
Extent: 16.5 x 22 cm
Item name: photograph
Collection: Photographic Archive
Level: ITEM
ID number: PG/15909/11
Record class: Private
Access conditions: No regulations or restrictions are implemented on this material. Advance notification of a research visit is advisable by emailing library@mnh.gov.im
Subject tags : #ALLATSEA
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Archive catalogue
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- Account of the wartime experiences at Dunkirk of Tom Corteen aboard requisitioned Steam Packet vessel 'Manxman' evacuating British troops (memoirs)
- Papers of Captain Thomas Henry Corteen (Tom Corteen) relating predominantly to his merchant navy career, latterly with the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company (certificates, service record, references, discharge sheets, correspondence, memoirs, unused postcards of vessels)
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