S.S. Pilsna

Title : S.S. Pilsna

Topic : Other collections

Location : Unknown

Date (start) : 1920

Estimated dates : 1920-1930

Nature : B&W Photo

Support image : Paper

Caption on print : PILSNA - TOO LATE

Information data : University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: ru-s049. Caption added later in biro. SS Pilsna, part of the Lloyd Tresino fleet. In 1930, aged 19, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, while on his way to study in Cambridge, made a calculation on board the SS Pilsna, that rocked the astrophysics community: the Chandrasekhar limit.

Keywords : Ruxton;ship;steamer;steamship;travel;Chandra