Several photographs from the William Lind Collection (held at the Ballast Trust) have been digitised and added to our Flickr account. The recent updates include two photographs of the S.S. Columbia, pictured below. The S.S. Columbia's eventful history tells a tale of the increasing popularity of transnational travel and of conflict between world powers at the turn of the century. Built for the...
I am currently volunteering at the Ballast Trust where I have begun scanning and uploading some of the merchant shipping photographs held at the Ballast Trust from the William Lind Collection. The picture below depicts one of the photographs from the William Lind collection. This is the S.S "Amerika" built by Harland & Wolff, Belfast, in 1905. Her story begins in 1910 where...