A port midship detail of the British India Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Chakdara (1951) working cargo in Tilbury Dock, Essex.

A port midship detail of the British India Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Chakdara (1951) working cargo in Tilbury Dock, Essex. The photographer is well back on the quayside looking across the quay showing the back of the bridge structure, the funnel and the accommodation ladder. The Coles mobile crane DR242 is in the foreground loading two tyred wheels onto a pallet. Wooden packing cases consigned to Ghandara Industries Ltd of Karachi are on a Boden BRS trailer, registered MWE439D, on the left of the picture. Transparencies numbers P80000CT to P80028CT were taken on the same occasion.

Object Details

ID: P80015CT
Type: Colour transparency
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Chakdara (1951)
Date made: 1966-1971
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, P & O Collection
Measurements: Overall: 59 mm x 60 mm