A deckhand using a pneumatic chipping hammer on the weather deck on board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Melita (1971) while at sea, probably in the Mediterranean.
A deckhand using a pneumatic chipping hammer on the weather deck on board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Melita (1971) while at sea, probably in the Mediterranean. He is wearing ear defenders and goggles and is working on the port side in the corner between number 2 hatch and the Stulcken derrick house. The photographer is looking aft, down and to port from on top of number 2 hatch. Transparencies numbers P64318CT to P64328CT were taken of the same man on the same occasion.
Object Details
| ID: | P64326CT |
|---|---|
| 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 76 mm |