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Alan Villiers Film Collection - Arab Dhows

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Alan Villiers Film Collection - Arab Dhows

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1938 AD - 1939 AD (C20th AD)

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Aden, sambuks in harbour, canoe, turbanned man, quayside scenes, bales on sambuks; [45'] sambuks casting off, boy in water, decorated booms; [65'] large hulls of booms high out of water on props, scraping bottoms on Ma'alla beach; [86'] boatbuilders at work, hauling up wooden planks, Ahmed the Yemenite, Captain of the SHEIKH MANSUR, rocky montainous coastline, crowded deck scenes on the SHEIKH MANSUR; [120'] rigging, hauling up bilge water with jerry can, mast and sail; [160'] (Badly stretched and warped) passing other sambuks with lateen sails, flag fluttering, Yemenite sailors at work; [192'] hoisting sail, boys in long boat, crew dressed in sarongs; [217'] Cutting up fish; [221'] old man with long beard; [227'] cooking pots on fire box, making unleavened bread; [257'] turbanned Ahmed; [271'] sailing into sunset, passing another boom, horse drawn buggy trotting down tree-lined road; [286'] hulls of booms being repaired on the beach, palm trees and corrugated huts, lowering and raising mast; [316'] flag, dancing bedouins, some waving guns. Vessel name: Shaihk Mansur (dhow sambuk). Locations: Middle East, East Africa, Aden, Yemen

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© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London / Bridgeman Images

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© Alan Villiers Collection

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