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Photo of a view from shore of the Johnson Street Bridge raised with a boat going under. Photo held onto the navy blue mat board by one side. Enlarged reproduction of original photograph. The photo is blurry. Photograph by Bill Mason. The back says Victoria whaling boats.

The photo shows 24 men on different parts of the boat for the photo, including laying on the roof. The boat has an a-frame crane at the stern. The photos is slightly faded. The annotation on the back says: This is the DGS Samson & Crew with the initials JSK
DGS stood for Dominion Government ship and by the 1950s the term Dominion of Canada was no longer used by the United Kingdom. Parts of the image have faded and the card has some slight creases.

Photo of the bow of “Southern Cross” docked, primarily the figurehead and ornamentation. The figurehead was made in the likeness of Lord Inchcape's daughter, Elsie Mackay, who disappeared whilst attempting to fly the Atlantic in 1928.

A photo of two men pulling in the seining net with another seining boat is a distance away.

Photo of a seining crew pulling in their catch from the net to the boat via brailer. The photo is blurry.

This photo is focused on the bridge and mast with all the satellites, and a half-brick chimney. At the stern of the boat there is an A-frame crane. The annotation on the back say says Navy boat in Esquimalt. It was placed together with three other photos.

A photo of man standing next to the mast of a whaling boat, “Gray”. Photo held onto the black mat board by one side. Enlarged reproduction of original photograph. The photo is blurry. Photograph by Bill Mason.

A phot of a man holding on to a wire rope, with two other crew members in the background on the whaling boat “Gray”. Photo held onto the blue mat board by one side. Enlarged reproduction of original photograph. The photo is blurry.

A photo of a man on the rigging of a whaling vessel almost to the top of the mast. Enlarged reproduction of original photograph. The photo is blurry. Photograph by Bill Mason.

A photograph of ships dressed in flags with people walking on a walkway on the beach. The back labels this photo as HMS Hood and Repulse visiting Victoria 1924. The faces of the people are not visible and the second ship is blurry.
Hood was built in Scotland in 1920, the Repulse was built in 1916, they were built as warships for the British Royal Navy. They visited on 25 June 1924.