A very distant port bow view of the Orient Line cruise ship Orion (1935) at anchor in a Norwegian fjord.

A very distant port bow view of the Orient Line cruise ship Orion (1935) at anchor in a Norwegian fjord. Her starboard anchor is deployed and she has an accommodation ladder rigged at the main deck aft with a boat alongside it. The Blue Peter flag is at the port yardarm on the foremast. Her motor lifeboat/tender number IV, seen from off her port bow, is alongside a wooden slipway with a few passengers on board. In addition to the boat's crew a man and three children are on the slipway. There are patches of snow on the mountains in the distance. Negatives numbers P84440 and P84486 were taken on the same occasion.

Object Details

ID: P84441
Type: Sheet film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Marine Photo Service
Vessels: Orion (1935)
Date made: 1936-1939
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Waterline Collection
Measurements: Overall: 117 mm x 167 mm