A view of the waterfront in Grand Harbour, Malta taken from the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922). The photographer is standing on the port side bridge wing looking aft and northeast towards the waterfront. A partial port bow view of the cargo ship Derbyshire (1966) is in the foreground. The waterfront, including buildings now housing the Ministry for Environment, Energy and Enterpise are in the middle ground. A partial view of the Sir Alexander Ball monument on top of the cliff is in the background. This is Slide 33 of a series of slides detailing Captain H. Bird's service as Watchkeeping Officer for the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) owned by Commercial Cable Company of London from 16 December 1974 to 21 March 1975. This series consists of 45 slides.