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 port side of the deck just ahead of number 2 hatch. Another man is using a broom in the scuppers abreast number 2 hatch while the third man is looking on. A pallet of drums of inflammable liquid is being carried as deck cargo alongside number 1 hatch in the foreground. Transparencies numbers P64338CT and P64339CT were taken on the same occasion.