Passengers disembarking from a motor lifeboat of the Orient Line passenger cruise liner Orcades (1937) at Alexandretta, Turkey

Passengers disembarking from a motor lifeboat from the Orient Line passenger cruise liner Orcades (1937) at a landing stage on the beach at Alexandretta, Turkey. Turkish officials are standing at the top of the landing steps. Local people are on the beach near beached rowing boats Damas, Emine, Inayet Allah, Abbasiye and another whose name includes the letters Gaz.

Object Details

ID: P90184
Type: Sheet film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Marine Photo Service
Date made: 1937-1939
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Waterline Collection
Measurements: Overall: 117 mm x 167 mm