One of the rivetted steel lifeboats of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger/cargo liner Arcadia (1954) being used as a landing stage at Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia. The lifeboat is alongside a stone wall, a wooden platform has been laid across the boat's bulwarks and a short brow is on the platform leading onto the quay A European sailor and two lascars are manning the boat to assist passengers ashore. The photographer is in an approaching boat.