Ocean Liner Coaling in Japan

Title: Ocean Liner Coaling in Japan
Caption: Our boat coaling at Moji, Japan.
Identifier: EFA_08
Description: Scene taken from the deck of a large ocean liner depicting workers in small boats near the shore hauling buckets of coal into portals in the side of the boat.
Commentary: Transpacific ocean liners would require refueling before reaching China, so they often stopped in a Japanese port to load coal.
Date Created: c.1897
Location: Moji-ku (門司区)
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/1856621/moji-ku.html
Source: Douglas D. Baughn
Provenance: Ewan Family Archives
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2025-01-18
Contributor: Cory Willmott
Type: Still Image