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This slide is part of a collection that seem to feature the World's first proper ice breaking ship The Ermack.  Designed to break through ice 2m thick and keep Russian trade going during winter and across the arctic region.

The collection features a variety of slides taken of the ship and also on board by the looks of it as well as more candid photos taken of crew I suspect when the ship was stationery, as they are on the ice.

The collection does feature slides that are just men on ice etc which I believe to have been taken at the same time as this is from a single source collection but its hard to identify 100% as being part of an Ermack journey because of lack of other evidence.  There are some other vessels shown which I suspect could be part of the convoy that the Ermack was breaking through the ice for.

I do not know if all the images are taken on the same voyage or several voyages around the turn of the 20th Century, but these are fascinating images of an historically important vessel and maybe voyage

I have numbered the slides as descriptions of each are sometimes difficult but hopefully the photos are clear enough.

I have seen copies of some of the images in contemporary Russian and other journals about the ship

These do not look to be copies of slides made from newspapers or journals etc, they look to be original... the photos show no sign of the pixellation you get from those (i have some images taken from journals I may list at some point regarding other ice breaking ships but they will be described as such)

3.25 x 3.25 inches...

No cracks to glass...

See photos for any loss of edging paper...

Dates from late 19th or early 20th Century...

Please see photos as they form part of the description...

Any questions please ask...

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