An aerial starboard side view, taken from well abaft the beam, of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Strathconon (1967) under way in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong

An aerial starboard side view, taken from well abaft the beam, 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 United States Navy guided missile escort destroyer Ramsey (1963), seen from just ahead of her port beam, is at moorings and her hull number is 2. Hong Kong Island and Victoria Peak are in the background. Transparencies numbers P64252CT to P64266CT were taken on the same occasion.

Object Details

ID: P64262CT
Type: Colour transparency
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Strathconon (1967); Ramsey (1963)
Date made: 1975 - April 1977
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, P & O Collection
Measurements: Overall: 60 mm x 62 mm