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A distant starboard side view, taken from well ahead of the beam, of the Orient Line cruise ship Orcades (1937) at anchor off Abbazia, Italy.
A distant starboard side view, taken from well ahead of the beam, of the Orient Line cruise ship Orcades (1937) at anchor off Abbazia, Italy. Her port anchor is deployed and she has an accommodation ladder rigged to her aft shell door. The ship's motor lifeboat Number 15 is underway in the foreground heading towards the shore with some of the ship's passengers. Abbazia, in the north end of the Adriatic on the east side, was an Italian port from 1920 to 1947.
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Object Details
| ID: | P84105 |
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| Type: | Sheet film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Marine Photo Service |
| Vessels: | Orcades (1937) |
| Date made: | 1937-1939 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Waterline Collection |
| Measurements: | Overall: 117 mm x 163 mm |