A deckhand hosing down the port side of the main deck on board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Melita (1971) while at sea, probably in the Mediterranean. The photographer is looking forward from abreast number three hatch coaming showing a man using an high pressure hose to wash down the deck alongside the Stulcken mast house. A deck cargo of red painted drums with inflammable contents is on the main deck just abaft the forecastle deck. A vertical format image.