A distant port quarter view of the Orient Line passenger cruise liner Orcades (1937) anchored off Alexandretta, Turkey, taken from the shore. A local rowing boat named Yavuz and registered IS. H.D. 271 is drawn up on the beach and a woman and three children are sitting in it. A small goat is tethered to the boat. A woman and two other children are sitting on the beach. A former Royal Navy KIL class gunboat of 1918-1919 converted to a merchant cargo ship is at anchor on the left. A large number of these vessels were registered under Italian owners, the Salam had an Egyptian owner and the San Gorg had a Maltese owner.