Two deckhands maintaining the pulley gear on the starboard Stulcken derrick support on board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Melita (1971) while under way, probably in the Mediterranean.

Two deckhands maintaining the pulley gear on the starboard Stulcken derrick support on board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Melita (1971) while under way, probably in the Mediterranean. The photographer is looking forward and up from the starboard bridge wing showing the men working on the lifting pulley of the aft 5 ton derrick. Transparencies numbers P64557CT to P64565CT were taken on the same occasion.

Object Details

ID: P64565CT
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: 61 mm x 76 mm