RMS Rangitiki in port 20th century

RMS Rangitiki in port 20th centuryRMS Rangitiki in port. The Rangitiki, 16,985 grt , is seen berthed at Number 29 Shed, Royal Albert Dock, c. 1955. The Rangitiki was delivered to the New Zealand Shipping Company on 31 January 1929, and made her maiden voyage to New Zealand on 15 February. The route from Southampton to Wellington, via Curacao and the Panama Canal, made the Rangitiki the first motor ship on a direct route between England and New Zealand. She was sold off and broken up

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The Prince of Wales and his mistress can be seen in the decorative phaeton making its way through the crowd

the official entrance to St James's Palace and Buckingham Palace

This view looks east from the terrace of Somerset House

head through the ticket barrier and jump on the next train

Made in fifteen copper sections

An anthology of true stories

When children were evacuated out of London during the Second World War

both old and modern

Dining in the box on the left are Boswell

Cherry Gardens in Rotherhithe

Tubular steel quay cranes assembled at West India Dock for removal to appropriate berths by the PLA heavy lift crane London Mammoth