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 to port and slightly forward from the starboard bridge wing showing a deckhand sitting on the top of the aft 5 ton crane with a grease gun in his hand, preparing to grease the wire guide wheels and bearings on either side of him. A vertical format image. Transparencies numbers P64280CT to P64286CT were taken on the same occasion.

Object Details

ID: P64285CT
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: 80 mm x 62 mm