Alongside the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's passenger cruise ship Viceroy of India (1929) anchored off the town of Narvik, Norway. The photographer is on the starboard accommodation ladder looking aft showing lifeboat No. 15 approaching the foot of the ladder while being fended off the hull by two seamen using boathooks. The motor tender A is standing off on the left. The ship is undertaking a cruise of Norwegian Fjords. A vertical format negative.