A distant aerial starboard side view, taken from abaft the beam, of the container ship Cardigan Bay (1972) passing through the Silver Jubilee Review lines at Spithead, Hampshire.

A distant aerial starboard side view, taken from abaft the beam, of the container ship Cardigan Bay (1972) passing through the Silver Jubilee Review lines at Spithead, Hampshire. She is outward bound for Tokyo. The photographer is looking north-north-east with Gosport and Portsmouth Harbour in the background. The warships in Line J in the foreground are the New Zealand frigate Canterbury (1970) and the Dutch destroyer Tromp (1973). Beyond the Cardigan Bay in Line F is the guided missile destroyer London (1961). In Line E are the frogate Arrow (1974), the destroyer Sheffield (1971) and the frigate Diomede (1969). The submarines in Line D are the Opossum (1963), Orpheus (1959) and Osiris (1962).

Object Details

ID: P64485CT
Type: Colour transparency
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Cardigan Bay (1972)
Date made: 28 June 1977
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, P & O Collection
Measurements: Overall: 62 mm x 62 mm
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