A distant starboard bow view of the Orient Line passenger/cargo liner Orcades (1948) alongside Berth 30-31 in Tilbury Docks, Essex.

A distant starboard bow view of the Orient Line passenger/cargo liner Orcades (1948) alongside Berth 30-31 in Tilbury Docks, Essex. She is working cargo and has the Orient Line corn coloured hull. The photographer is looking west-by-south from the east wall of the Tidal Basin dock entrance. The bow of a large rivetted steel hulled vessel is in the left foreground. A vertical format image. Transparency Number PCT1661 was taken on the same occasion.

Object Details

ID: PCT1662
Type: Colour transparency
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Orcades (1948)
Date made: 1960-1964
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, P & O Collection
Measurements: Overall: 50 mm x 50 mm;Transparency: 40 mm x 35 mm