Three deckhands hosing down the port side of the upper deck on board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Melita (1971) while at sea, probably in the Mediterranean.
Three deckhands hosing down the port side of the upper deck on board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Melita (1971) while at sea, probably in the Mediterranean. The photographer is looking aft from the port side of the forecastle deck showing one man hosing the deck between numbers 1 and 2 hatches. Another man is using a broom abreast number 2 hatch. A third man is standing by a pallet of drums of inflammable liquid that is being carried as deck cargo alongside number 1 hatch in the foreground. Transparencies numbers P64338CT and P64339CT were taken on the same occasion.
Object Details
| ID: | P64338CT |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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