On board a Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company cargo liner of the Strathmay class (1970) loading containers in the Seaforth Container Terminal at Liverpool.

On board a Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company cargo liner of the Strathmay class (1970) loading containers 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 the starboard side of the deck just abaft the Stulcken mast looking aft showing a red 20 feet Cti container being swung aboard by a Paceco-Vickers Portainer. A vertical format image. Transparencies numbers P64605CT to P64670CT were taken on the same day.

Object Details

ID: P64662CT
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