| Photo Title: | S.S. "Neptune" in the harbour at St. John's, Newfoundland. |
| Image No.: | PF-316.012 |
| Image Location: | Job/pf316_012.jpeg |
| Date of Creation: | [ca. 1902] |
| Physical Description: | 1 photograph : sepia toned ; 11 x 15.5 cm |
| Biography/Admin History: | Wooden whaling and sealing ship, 684 gross tons, 191' long, built in Dundee, Scotland in 1873. Registered in St. John's, Newfoundland in 1888, # 115. Official number 66753, owned at that time by the Avalon Steam Ship Company of St. John's. Used in the Geographic Survey of the Arctic in 1884, and 1902-3. Went to the Ice for the last time in 1941, after collecting well over 1 million seal pelts (1 million achieved in 1921), and sank near St. John's, March 5, 1943, after 70 years of service. Third mast removed a few years after 1914. |
| Collector: | John Job |
| Source Donor: | Donated by Ian Job Reid, 2002 |
| Collection Title: | Job Photograph Collection |
| Associated Material: | Job family papers |
| Restrictions on Access: | Copyright expired. |
| Copyright: | p |
| Physical Condition: | Faded |
| Notes: | Title based on contents of image. - Identified in John Job's Family by R.B. Job, St. John's: 1954. |
| Subjects: | Sealing vessels--Newfoundland and Labrador / St. John's Harbour (N.L.) / Neptune (Ship). |
