A slightly distant starboard near broadside view, taken from only just ahead of the beam, of the Cunard Line cruise ship Lancastria (1922) at anchor in the harbour at Funchal, Madeira. Her starboard anchor is deployed and she is in the standard Cunard livery of black hull with white upperworks but the white has been extended down by one deck. An accommodation ladder is rigged at the shell door amidships and a number of local craft are clustered at the foot of the gangway. Many bumboats are alongside her quarter offering their wares to the passengers on board. Various vessels and lighters are at anchor or moorings in the harbour including a 3-masted schooner, a motor launch with 'Savoy Hotel' on the hull and a harbour workboat steamer named Victoria (fl. 1930). Anchored astern of the Lancastria is the Elder, Dempster Lines passenger/cargo liner Aba (1918) and a general cargo ship is anchored further offshore beyond the Lancastria. On shore in the foreground are piles of railway track and a number of 4-wheeled tipping trucks.