A starboard 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 aft A dockyard water tender is alongside amidships. The photographer is looking west from the Senglea foreshore showing local women and children on the rocks. The Royal Navy fleet tug Mediator (1944), seen from off her starboard bow, is under way coming out of French Creek. Her pendant number is A125.