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 port side of the forecastle deck looking down, aft and to starboard. Number one hold is being loaded with a mixed cargo for Mediterranean ports including steel drums, cardboard drums and boxes, wooden packing cases and bags of Price's Pristerene. A hoist of four blue-painted steel drums of Arquad 2HT-75 dimethyl ammonium chloride is being swung into position alongside 24 similar drums on the deck to starboard of the hold. The drums are destined for Piraeus. A vertical format image. Transparencies P64788CT, P64789CT and P64821CT to P64836CT were taken on the same occasion.