Lifeboat Maintenance
Ship's engineers and crew are clearly giving this lifeboat some TLC. This image was taken from amidships aboard the MV Kimanis, looking forward to the bridge and the starboard lifeboat davits just abaft that structure.
I'm not sure whether those on the main deck watching the maintenance are other crewmembers interested in what is being done to something that might prove vital to them in a crisis, or whether they are local labourers taking a break from loading/unloading the ship. Note the open deck hatch in the lower left of the image, with the covers stacked on the forward edge of the hatch. There's also a spare anchor stowed against the forward superstructure.
The Kimanis was a 90m long, 3,189 ton cargo liner built in Dundee in 1951 and part of the Straits Steamship fleet until 1982. She was a tramp steamer operating on the mainly coastal routes between Singapore, Brunei and the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak. In addition to all sorts of cargo, she also carried a small number of passengers.
The ship was tied up in a port when this image was taken. Based on other slides in the set, it is probably Victoria, on the island of Labuan, one of the Malaysia's three federal territories, which is perched just off the northern coast of the island of Borneo.
Scanned from a slide.
Lifeboat Maintenance
Ship's engineers and crew are clearly giving this lifeboat some TLC. This image was taken from amidships aboard the MV Kimanis, looking forward to the bridge and the starboard lifeboat davits just abaft that structure.
I'm not sure whether those on the main deck watching the maintenance are other crewmembers interested in what is being done to something that might prove vital to them in a crisis, or whether they are local labourers taking a break from loading/unloading the ship. Note the open deck hatch in the lower left of the image, with the covers stacked on the forward edge of the hatch. There's also a spare anchor stowed against the forward superstructure.
The Kimanis was a 90m long, 3,189 ton cargo liner built in Dundee in 1951 and part of the Straits Steamship fleet until 1982. She was a tramp steamer operating on the mainly coastal routes between Singapore, Brunei and the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak. In addition to all sorts of cargo, she also carried a small number of passengers.
The ship was tied up in a port when this image was taken. Based on other slides in the set, it is probably Victoria, on the island of Labuan, one of the Malaysia's three federal territories, which is perched just off the northern coast of the island of Borneo.
Scanned from a slide.