Repro ID: H5258
Title: Depot for boats of HMS London at Funzi, Pemba.
Description: The Royal Navy employed Swahili interpreters, such as the one shown here wearing a jacket and rolled-up white trousers, on many of its overseas stations. There was a storage depot and a small coaling station at Funzi on Pemba.
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1881
Credit line: National Maritime Museum, London