Five manual lifeboats and a motor tender from the Orient line cruise ship Orontes (1929) heading off to the start of a race in an unknown location. The motor tender is towing the other boats in line astern. The manual boats are each crewed by sixteen passengers and two seamen and they are proceeding with their oars tossed. The photographer is close alongside the Orontes whose midships lifeboats and falls can be seen on the right. The ship is in an enclosed anchorage with a coast lined with commercial buildings on the left and a very low lying coast with small structures on the horizon. Negative number P84692 was taken on the same occasion.