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The Indian summer of the inner London docks: the Grierson Collection

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The Coptic (1928).
© National Maritime Museum, London
Repro ID: P37905
Description: The Shaw, Savill & Albion Line's 'Coptic' (1928, 8281 GRT) in the King George V Dock in March 1963. Built by Swan Hunter, she had collided with HMAS 'Adelaide' off the New South Wales coast in September 1940. She was scrapped in Belgium in 1965.
Creator: Grierson
Date: 2 March 1963
Credit line: National Maritime Museum, London. Grierson Collection
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