A view of the container park at Dammam, Saudi Arabia taken from on board the container ship Nedlloyd Maretania (1977)

A view of the container park at Dammam, Saudi Arabia taken from on board the container ship Nedlloyd Maretania (1977) The photographer is standing on the starboard of the bridge wing looking forward and down. A yellow container fork lift is preparing to lift a container on the left side of the image. A second forklift has picked up a second container. There are numerous containers and dockyard buildings on the quaysde extending from the foreground to the background on the right side of the image. This is Slide 28 of a series of slides detailing Captain H. Bird's service as Second Officer for the container ship Nedlloyd Maretania (1977) owned by H. Janssen of Bad Zwischenahn, Germany and chartered by the Royal Nedlloyd Group shipping company of Rotterdam from 9 June 1978 to 26 July 1978. This series consists of 53 slides.

Object Details

ID: PCT16793
Type: Colour transparency
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Henry P. Bird
Vessels: Nedlloyd Maretania (1977)
Date made: Late June 1978
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Bird Collection
Measurements: Image: 27 mm x 27 mm;Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm
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