A distant general view of the shoreline at the industrial northern end of Alexandretta, Turkey, showing a number of pitched roof warehouse or industrial buildings with waterfront cranes on the left of the picture. A group of buildings with a cargo lighter in front of them are to the right of centre. In the right foreground is the local rowing boat named Damas which is conveying passengers shorewards from the Orient Line passenger cruise liner Orcades (1937) (not in the picture). Rolling hills and a mountain are in the background.