An aerial port broadside view of the Orient Steam Navigation Company passenger/cargo liner Orsova (1954) alongside a pier at Kowloon, Hong Kong.

An aerial port broadside view of the Orient Steam Navigation Company passenger/cargo liner Orsova (1954) alongside a pier at Kowloon, Hong Kong. She has a corn coloured hull and a Welsh bonnet funnel cap. Five other passenger or cargo vessels are alongside the Kowloon finger piers and the Canton Railway Clock Tower is in the middle distance. Five United States Navy warships are at anchor in Victoria Harbour including a converted Cleveland class guided missile cruiser, a Forrest Sherman class destroyer and two Gearing/Sumner class detsroyers. The photographer is looking south-by-east from above West Kowloon showing Hong Kong Island in the background. A vertical format transparency.

Object Details

ID: P62646CT
Type: Colour transparency
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Orsova (1954)
Date made: 1959-1963
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, P & O Collection
Measurements: Overall: 125 mm x 100 mm