by northeast » Wed Dec 16, 2015 4:59 pm
The black funnel and white riband might suggest an early General Steam Navigation vessel, before they adopted electric deck cranes in addition to the derricks, but I don't have photos of many of them for comparison ... a company that has been sadly overlooked in the WSS and SiF series of fleet histories, and 'The Navvies' by Middlemiss is less illustrated.
An alternative in mind was one of the Aberdeen S.N. steamers as they had the riband and also the distinctive white-painted lower sections of the masts, but all seem to have had buff funnels, unless anyone can find differently.
The side door aft certainly suggests a vessel on a regular service coastwise or near-Continent.