The British India Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Chakdara (1951) loading cargo alongside a wharf in Tilbury Dock, Essex. The photographer is on a dockside crane looking aft and to starboard from abreast the ship's bridge showing a large wooden crate being swung towards number 3 hatch. A number of crew or stevedores are by the ship's rail or are sunbathing alongside number 3 hatch. A cargo net of sacks is being swung aboard aft. Transparency number P62581CT was taken on the same occasion.