Boat assembly, Congo, ca. 1912-1915 (IMP-CSCNWW33-OS10-74)

Boat assembly, Congo, ca. 1912-1915
Black and white lantern slide showing a partially built ship sitting on the land on wooden tracks, in the process of being assembled, in colonial Belgian Congo (present day Democratic Republic of the Congo).
A European missionary (possibly Edward Algernon Ruskin) sits on the stern of the boat, surrounded by Congolese labourers. Another European missionary stands on deck, and labourers stand on the ground below the ship, where construction equipment and parts are scattered.
The boat has two levels, so is possibly the S.S Livingstone, a boat built and teasted in Ireland and presumably shipped to the Congo in parts. The S.S Livingstone was to be a passenger ferry, travelling along the Congo River between Kinshasa (formerly Leopoldville) and Brazzaville.
This slide comes from a collection generated by missionaries working for the Congo Balolo Mission, a mission begun in 1889 under the supervision of the East London Training Institute for Home and Foreign Missions that developed into the interdenominational evangelical mission Regions Beyond Missionary Union after 1900.
Photographer: Unknown
Filename: IMP-CSCNWW33-OS10-74.tif
Coverage date: 1912/1915
Subject (unesco): Inland water transport
Part of collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Part of subcollection: Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s
Subject (corporate name): Congo Balolo Mission
Repository name: Centre for the Study of World Christianity
Archival file: Volume2/IMP-CSCNWW33-OS10-74.tif
Repository address: The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
Geographic subject (country): Congo
Format (aacr2): lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm
Geographic subject (continent): Africa
Rights: Contact the repository for details.
Part of series: Regions Beyond Missionary Union. Congo Lantern Slides (CSCNWW33/OS10)
Repository email: [email protected]
Date created: 1902/1915
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Subject (aat genre): exterior views
Format (aat): lantern slides; photographs
Access conditions: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/divinity/research/centres/world-christianity/collections-resources
Geographic subject: rivers
File: CSCNWW33/OS10/74
Subject (lcsh): Steamboats; Building