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 starboard side in the corner between number 2 hatch and the Stulcken derrick house. The photographer is looking aft, down and to starboard from on top of number 2 hatch. Transparencies numbers P64329CT and P64330CT were taken of the same man on the same occasion.

Object Details

ID: P64329CT
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 73 mm