A Coles mobile crane being unloaded from number 2 hold of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Melita (1971) in a British port.

A Coles mobile crane being unloaded from number 2 hold of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Melita (1971) in a British port. The ship is using her own 30 ton derrick to lift the vehicle out of the hold and swing it towards the quayside. The photographer is looking aft from the port side of the ship's forecastle. The ship is berthed alongside a wharf which is equipped with track mounted pedestal cranes and looks out on an open estuary. A motor van registered JMF957M is on the quay between the legs of one of the pedestal cranes. Transparencies numbers P64748CT to P64753CT were taken on the same occasion.

Object Details

ID: P64752CT
Type: Colour transparency
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Melita (1971)
Date made: 1973-1978
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, P & O Collection
Measurements: Overall: 66 mm x 61 mm