A port quarter view of the Orient Line cruise ship Orontes (1929) alongside a pontoon at Algiers, Algeria. An accommodation ladder is rigged from the main deck to the pontoon and a cargo net of stores is being handled at a shell door forward. Local traders are selling their wares to the passengers on the pontoon. The ship is flying the Blue Peter from the port yardarm on the foremast. A lighthouse is in the background.