A starboard side view, taken from ahead of the beam, of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger liner Orcades (1948) at moorings in Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta. She has a corn coloured hull and is flying the courtesy flag of Malta as well as her company house flag and the Blue Peter. An accommodation ladder is rigged aft and two of her boats are alongside it. Three of her lifeboats from the starboard side have been launched. A Royal Navy dockyard tender is alongside amidships. A Maltese luzzu and a dghaisa are drawn up on shore in the foreground.