On board the Orient Line cruise ship Orford (1928) moored in the San Marco Basin at Venice. The photographer is on a structure at the rear of the boat deck looking forward showing the boats in their davits, deck tennis courts marked out, engine room fan machinery and ventilators, aft boiler room ventilators and the aft funnel. St Mark's Square and Campanile and the Palazzo Ducale (Doge's Palace) is on the right. The entrance to the Grand Canal and the Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute are on the left. A steam yacht and the two Italian Navy torpedo boats Alcione (1937) and Calliope (1938) are moored off the Fondamenta Salute in the left background All three of these vessels have awnings rigged. Negative number P84308 was taken on the same occasion.