A distant port quarter view of the Orient Line passenger cruise liner Orcades (1937) anchored off Alexandretta, Turkey, taken from the shore. Her motor lifeboat number 16 is alongside the landing steps by the quayside and a female passenger is about to descend the steps to get into the boat. A local boy is sitting in a rowing boat drawn up on the beach and another rowing boat with a man at the oars is offshore. A vertical format negative.