A starboard side view of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Strathatlow (1961) unloading a steel unit onto a wharf at Dubai.

A starboard side view of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Strathatlow (1961) unloading a steel unit onto a wharf at Dubai. A reinforced steel cylinder weighing 54200 Kg is being lowered by the ship's 65 ton derrick onto a 12-wheeled articulated trailer. The unit, manufactured by F.L. Smith & Co. Ltd of London, is consigned to Costain and a Costain six-wheeled haulage tractor unit is in the foreground. This is almost a silhouette. Transparencies numbers P64733CT to P64742CT were taken on the same occasion.

Object Details

ID: P64734CT
Type: Colour transparency
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Strathatlow (1961)
Date made: March 1975 - October 1978
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, P & O Collection
Measurements: Overall: 61 mm x 75 mm