A port side view, taken from well ahead of the beam, of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Strathalvie (1965) loading a steel cylinder in a British port. The yellow painted, 27.4 metre long cylinder is marked as Petrolite Job No. 184 and is destined for Damman (sic), presumably a misprint for Dammam, Saudi Arabia. The structure has a gross weight of 71120 Kgs. and was brought to the dock on two separate six-wheeled units hauled by Wynn's 6x6 heavy haulage tractor unit 198, registered SDW545J, which is out of the picture. The cylinder has been lowered onto the port side of the deck amidships by the ship's 180 ton Stulcken derrick and the lifting wires are slack. Bedford motor lorries are on number three hatch. The ship's bow and stern are out of the picture. The photographer is on the quayside and in the foreground are two officials and a ship's officer, probably the captain as he has shoulder straps with four gold bars. A vertical format image. Transparencies numbers P64590CT to P64603CT were taken on the same occasion.