Boat with British Ensign, Congo, ca. 1900-1915 (IMP-CSCNWW33-OS10-81)

Boat with British Ensign, Congo, ca. 1900-1915
Black and white lantern slide showing a large wooden boat flying the British Ensign, a flag flown to designate a military or civilian ship. Since this boat is a civilian vessel, it will fly the Red Ensign.
In Belgian colonial Congo Free State or post-1908 Belgian Congo (present day Democratic Republic of the Congo).
A European male missionary can be seen standing on deck in breeches, shirt and carrying his pith helmet. He is surrounded by Congolese men, women and children in traditional dress, some of whom propel the boat with long poles.
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-OS10-81.tif
Coverage date: 1900/1915
Subject (unesco): Missionary work; Ships; Flags
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-OS10-81.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: 1900/1915
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/OS10/81
Subject (lcsh): Missionaries; Launches; Flags; Emblems, national