An engineer on the forecastle sounding the tanks on board the ore/bulk/oil carrier Kildare (1972) while in the iron ore loading port of Tubarao, Vitoria, Brazil. He is making a pencil note on a piece of paper and a sounding tape is in a pipe on the deck at his feet. The photographer is looking aft showing the ship berthed on the north side of the finger pier while taking on iron ore in number five hold. A vertical format image. The Kildare arrived at Vitoria on 30 June and berthed on the finger pier. On 3 July she was moved to the main terminal and sailed fully loaded on 4 July 1974. Transparencies numbers PCT692 to PCT791 were taken during the same stay in port.