A group of six crewmen on 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.
A group of six crewmen on 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 and down from number two hatch cover showing two engineers, two deckhands and two men wearing oxygen facemasks and dressed in yellow protective gear. A deck cargo of red painted drums with inflammable contents is on the main deck just ahead of the group of men. Transparencies numbers P64353CT to P64363CT were taken on the same occasion.
Object Details
| ID: | P64353CT |
|---|---|
| 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 77 mm |