Lifeboats being launched from on board the Orient Line cruise ship Orion (1935) during an exercise in an unknown Baltic port.

Lifeboats being launched from on board the Orient Line cruise ship Orion (1935) during an exercise in an unknown Baltic port. The photographer is at the top of the port side accommodation ladder looking forward showing a boat drill for the crew with three boats in the water and two still in their falls just above the water. All of the boats are fully manned. The location is almost certainly one of the ports on the south coast of the Baltic. A vertical format negative. Negatives numbers P84371 to P84377 inclusive were taken on the same occasion.

Object Details

ID: P84373
Type: Sheet film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Marine Photo Service
Vessels: Orion (1935)
Date made: 1935-1939
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Waterline Collection
Measurements: Overall: 165 mm x 115 mm