Alongside the port side amidships of the British India Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Chakdara (1951) during the unloading of a cargo of Tanganyika sisal at Sunderland, Durham.

Alongside the port side amidships of the British India Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Chakdara (1951) during the unloading of a cargo of Tanganyika sisal at Sunderland, Durham. The photographer is looking forward and to starboard from a railway truck on the quayside abreast number 4 hold showing a dockside crane hoisting bales of sisal from number 3 hold. Another crane is swinging a hoist of bales towards the storage shed from number 2 hold. Negatives PM1792/4A to PM1796/30A were taken on the same occasion.

Object Details

ID: PM1796/29A
Type: 35mm negative
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Chakdara (1951)
Date made: 1960-1964
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, P & O Collection
Measurements: Film length: 35 mm x 190 mm;Image: 25 mm x 37 mm