On board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Melita (1971) alongside a berth in Liverpool Docks. The ship is berthed port side to the quay. The photographer is on the starboard side of the forecastle deck looking aft showing four men guiding a hoist of four blue-painted steel drums of Arquad 2HT-75 dimethyl ammonium chloride into position alongside twelve similar drums on the deck, abreast the hold near the break of the forecastle. The drums are destined for Piraeus. In the foreground are ten drums of Titanium Intermediates Ltd TILCOM and a wooden packing case marked for Piraeus as a hazardous deck cargo. A vertical format image. Transparencies P64788CT, P64789CT and P64821CT to P64836CT were taken on the same occasion.