Two crewmen on the port side of the main deck hosing down a deck cargo on board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Melita (1971) while at sea, probably in the Mediterranean. The photographer is looking forward, slightly to port and down from the port forward corner of number two hatch cover showing two men, each wearing an air cylinder and facemask and dressed in yellow protective gear. They are using sea water to wash down a deck cargo of red painted drums which have inflammable contents and which are stored near the break of the forecastle. A vertical format image. Transparencies numbers P64353CT to P64363CT were taken on the same occasion.