EU: Colombo (Sri Lanka). View over the harbor with Cleveland ocean-going vapor (1913)
1913 Colombo, Sri Lanka
The steamship Cleveland is visible in Colombo's harbor in this 1913 photograph of the busy Ceylon port. Ocean liners like the Cleveland regularly called at Colombo, which lay on major passenger and cargo shipping routes linking Europe with Asia and Australia.
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