75/ 854 [Maritime history]. Pair of binoculars. ±1900, brass w. black coated brass eyepieces, extending brass cover over objective lenses, ±16,4/ 17,9(extended)(l.)x13(w.) cm. [incl. brass eyepieces], ocular lenses Ø 4,5 cm. [incl. brass eyepieces], objective lenses Ø 6,5 cm. [incl. brass cover], "H.S.M." and "Ystroom" on outside of barrel chambers, "English (...) make" on plate over top bridge.

- Eyepieces (sl.) worn; inside of barrel chambers repaired/ solded; occas. sl. dented.

= The cargo steamer Ystroom was built by Robert Thompson & Sons, Sunderland for the Hollandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij in 1898 and was stranded on Gull Island, St. Mary's Bay (Newfoundland) in 1923.