The Orient Line passenger cruise ship Orontes (1929) in Bighi Bay, Grand Harbour, Malta

The photographer is on the Upper Barracca looking through an archway above the Saluting Battery showing the Royal Naval Hospital at Bighi in the right background and Fort Rinella in the centre. The Orient Line passenger cruise ship Orontes (1929), seen from abaft her port beam, is at moorings in Bighi Bay. A man is in the foreground leaning on the decorative iron guardrails. A vertical format negative.

Object Details

ID: P93028
Type: Sheet film negative.
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Marine Photo Service
Vessels: Orontes (1929)
Date made: 1930-1939
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Waterline Collection
Measurements: Overall: 166 mm x 116 mm