Maintaining the cargo derrick pulleys on board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Melita (1971) while under way at sea.

Maintaining the cargo derrick pulleys on board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Melita (1971) while under way at sea. The photographer is looking forward and down from the starboard bridge wing showing deckhands cleaning and greasing the pulley blocks and wheels that are laid down on number 3 hatch. Transparencies numbers P64280CT to P64286CT were taken on the same occasion.

Object Details

ID: P64281CT
Type: Colour transparency
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Melita (1971)
Date made: 1976
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, P & O Collection
Measurements: Overall: 62 mm x 77 mm