Loading containers on a Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company cargo liner of the Strathmay class (1970) in the Seaforth Container Terminal at Liverpool.
Loading containers on a Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company cargo liner of the Strathmay class (1970) in the Seaforth Container Terminal at Liverpool. The ship is berthed starboard side to the quay and is one of Strathmay (1970), Strathmeigle (1971) or Strathmore (1971). The photographer is using a fish-eye lens from an elevated position on the quay close to the forecastle of the ship looking aft and to port showing a brown 40 feet Strick Line/P & O container being lowered onto number two hatch by a Paceco-Vickers Portainer. Other 40 feet containers are already loaded on the hatch. A vertical format image. Transparencies numbers P64605CT to P64670CT were taken on the same day.
Object Details
ID: | P64640CT |
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Type: | Colour transparency |
Display location: | Not on display |
Vessels: | Strathmay (1970); Strathmeigle (1971) Strathmore (1971) |
Date made: | May 1975 to August 1978 |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, P & O Collection |
Measurements: | Overall: 76 mm x 61 mm |