Alongside number 2 hold on board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Melita (1971) in a British port.

Alongside number 2 hold on board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Melita (1971) in a British port. The photographer is looking down into number 2 hold showing men unloading sacks of Coodine A from a pallet fork. The lower hold contains many more sacks of Coodine A, steel drums, new rubber tyres and large cardboard cartons. In the tween deck is a Coles mobile crane withs its cab protected by sheets of plywood and it wheels protected by lengths of 6 x 2 timber. Transparencies numbers P64748CT to P64753CT were taken on the same occasion.

Object Details

ID: P64792CT
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: 62 mm x 61 mm