Loading timber on board a Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company cargo liner of the Strathardle (1967) class in an unknown Japanese port. The photographer is looking forward from abaft the head of the accommodation ladder alongside the face of the superstructure showing a cadet standing on the top of the ladder. Two of the ship's officers are by number 4 hold supervising the loading of a large sling of timber by the ship's cranes and a gang of Japanese men wearing safety helmets.