A port broadside view of the Canadian Pacific Steamships cruise ship Empress of Australia (1914) anchored at Tromso, Norway. Her starboard anchor is deployed and a rope ladder is hung below number 2 lifeboat. She has an accommodation ladder rigged to her shell doors amidships and passengers are embarking in a lifeboat for a shore excursion. Lighters are alongside her bow and her stern. The photographer is looking aft from a boat heading for the shore. The negative is slightly out of focus.