On board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company vessel Viceroy of India (1929) under way heading for Stockholm, Sweden, in the archipelago east of the city. The photographer is on the centreline of the promenade deck aft looking aft and to starboard showing a few passengers by the ship's rail and four people are playing quoits on the games deck. A large fort is at the water's edge on the coast and the rest of the coast is heavily wooded.