The five members of the crew of one of the motor tenders from the Orient Line cruise ship Orontes (1929) with their boat alongside a wooden slipway at Aandalsnes, Norway. The photographer is on the slipway and has organized the crew into an informal group with the mechanic and two seamen on board the boat and a seaman and petty officer on the slipway. The petty officer has a crossed swords badge on his right sleeve.