A port broadside view of the Canadian Pacific Steamships cruise ship Empress of Australia (1914) anchored in Sognefjord off Balholm, Norway.

A port broadside view of the Canadian Pacific Steamships cruise ship Empress of Australia (1914) anchored in Sognefjord off Balholm, Norway. Her starboard anchor is deployed, she has a pilot ladder below Number 2 lifeboat station and an accommodation ladder is rigged at her shell doors amidships. Number 20 lifeboat is in the water still connected to her falls. Logs are on a quayside in the foreground and the sterns of two motor fishing vessels are on the left.

Object Details

ID: P83706
Type: sheet film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Marine Photo Service
Vessels: Empress of Australia (1914)
Date made: 1931-1937
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Waterline Collection
Measurements: Overall: 117 mm x 167 mm