A slightly distant port side view, taken from well ahead of the beam, of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger/cargo liner Orcades (1948) at moorings in Grand Harbour, Malta.
A slightly distant port side view, taken from well ahead of the beam, of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger/cargo liner Orcades (1948) at moorings in Grand Harbour, Malta. She has a Welsh bonnet funnel cap and an accommodation ladder is rigged to a shell door amidships. The photographer is looking south-by-west from the Upper Barrakka Gardens showing French Creek on the left. A Royal Navy store or maintenance ship of the Fort type is moored astern of the Orcades and a tanker is in the Admiralty Floating Dock 35 (1946).
Object Details
| ID: | P62572CT |
|---|---|
| Type: | Colour transparency |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Vessels: | Orcades (1948); Admiralty Floating Dock 35 (1946) |
| Date made: | 1962 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, P & O Collection |
| Measurements: | Overall: 47 mm x 62 mm |
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