On board an Orient Line passenger cruise ship heading south past the lighthouse and buildings on the peninsula of Cape St. Vincent, Portugal. The ship is either the Orion (1935) or the Orcades (1937) and the photographer is on one of the decks below the poop looking aft and to port showing a woman sitting on a wooden deck chair and another woman in a cane armchair. An unidentified, single funnelled cargo ship with goalpost masts and a substantial deck cargo of timber is passing Cape St. Vincent which is in the distance and is seen from the south.