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 |
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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 |