A very distant aerial port quarter view, taken from wide off the stern, of the Trident Tankers Ltd tanker Ardtaraig (1969) being towed stern first in Loch Long, off Finnart, Argyllshire.

A very distant aerial port quarter view, taken from wide off the stern, of the Trident Tankers Ltd tanker Ardtaraig (1969) being towed stern first in Loch Long, off Finnart, Argyllshire. She is bound in fully laden with oil from Mena Ahmadi, Kuwait, to Finnart. She has been turned off Loch Goil and is now backing towards the Finnart terminal. She has two tugs at her bow, two at the stern and two standing off to starboard and she is emitting a column of black smoke from her funnel. Transparencies numbers P64067CT to P64120CT and P64126CT to P64140CT were taken on the same day.

Object Details

ID: P64074CT
Type: Colour transparency
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Ardtaraig (1969)
Date made: August 1969
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, P & O Collection
Measurements: Overall: 59 mm x 62 mm