Lowering cabin lifeboat number 5 on board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger/cargo liner Arcadia (1954) while at anchor off Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.

Lowering cabin lifeboat number 5 on board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger/cargo liner Arcadia (1954) while at anchor off Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia. The photographer is on the starboard bridge wing looking aft and down showing a Lascar crew member standing on the foredeck of cabin lifeboat number 5 while the boat is being lowered. There are two European officers in the after well of the boat, which is almost at water level. Boat number 3 has already been launched. A vertical format image. Transparencies numbers PCT1340 to PCT1342 were taken on the same occasion.

Object Details

ID: PCT1341
Type: Colour transparency
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Arcadia (1954)
Date made: 1959-1970
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, P & O Collection
Measurements: Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm;Transparency: 40 mm x 35 mm