A slightly distant aerial port bow view of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Strathconon (1967) under way in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong.
A slightly distant aerial port bow view of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Strathconon (1967) under way in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong. She has orange painted machinery on deck abreast number 4 hatch and her cranes are in the raised position. She has the P & O shadow logo on her funnel, a corn coloured hull and her starboard anchor chain is suspended from the upper hawse ready for deployment. The photographer is in an aircraft . The Royal Navy base HMS Tamar is on Hong Kong Island in the right background. The cable ship Edward Wilshaw (1949), seen from fine off her port quarter, is at moorings in the left background. Transparencies numbers P64252CT to P64266CT were taken on the same occasion.
Object Details
ID: | P64259CT |
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Type: | Colour transparency |
Display location: | Not on display |
Vessels: | Strathconon (1967); Edward Wilshaw (1949) |
Date made: | 1975 - April 1977 |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, P & O Collection |
Measurements: | Overall: 60 mm x 62 mm |