Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12048

    MS Magga Dan, Funchal Harbour, Madeira

    Date
    21 November 1956
    Creator
    George Hemmen (1926, British) , Photographer
    Object type
    Material
    Dimensions
    width (negative (photographic film)): 35mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > landscape
    transport
       > ship
    Description
    Maritime view of the MS Magga Dan in Funchal Harbour, Madeira.

    The main party for the Royal Society International Geophysical Year Antarctic Expedition and the main party of the Commonwealth Trans Antarctic Expedition set sail for Antarctica on the MS Magga Dan from Butlers Wharf, London on the 15 November 1956 and stopped off in Funchal Harbour on the 21 November.
    Object history
    From a set of photographic negatives taken by George Hemmen, former Expedition’s Officer for the Royal Society and who was originally appointed as Stores Officer by the Falkland Island Dependencies Survey (FIDS) to organise the International Geophysical Year Antarctic Expedition on behalf of the Royal Society.
    Associated place
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