A port near broadside view, taken from only just abaft the beam, of the Cunard Line cruise ship Lancastria (1922) under way off a mountainous coast that is shrouded in low cloud and mist. An accommodation ladder is rigged alongside the midships shell doors but it is not lowered. Numbers 2 and 8 lifeboats are swung out and suspended under their falls. Passengers are congregated on the decks and many are waving at the ship on which the photographer is travelling on a reciprocal course. The Lancastria is in the standard Cunard livery of black hull and white upperworks but the white has been extended down by one deck. Negative number P83894 was taken on the same occasion.