A close view of the starboard bow of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger/cargo liner Strathnaver (1931) working cargo alongside a berth in Tilbury Docks, Essex. The photographer is on the quayside abreast number 1 lifeboat looking forward and to port showing a net suspended over the ship's side in way of number 1 hold. A quayside crane has a sling of cardboard boxes and three stevedores on the quay are man-handling more of the same boxes. A vertical format image.