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A view of the wheelhouse of the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) at sea (Colour transparency)
A sunset view over the Lion's Head taken from Cape Town, South Africa (Colour transparency)
The Chief Officer and a crewman tensing the grappling rope on the deck of the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) at sea (Colour transparency)
A view of a sunrise off the West African Coast taken from the motor coaster King On (1949) at sea (Colour transparency)
A view of a partially coiled tank cone on board the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) (Colour transparency)
A view of wind swept palm trees on the coast of Bermuda looking out to sea (Colour transparency)
A large mobile straddle carrier bearing a container underway in Hamburg, Germany (Colour transparency)
A view of two crewman handling a cable on board the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) (Colour transparency)
Driving along Chapman's Peak Drive in Cape Town, South Africa (Colour transparency)
A view looking forward of the container ship Nedlloyd Maretania (1977) at sea (Colour transparency)
A view of the Flying Angels Mission to Seamen in Cape Town, South Africa (Colour transparency)
A view of the foredeck of the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) at sea (Colour transparency)
Standing in the Company Botanical Gardens looking towards Government House in Cape Town, South Africa (Colour transparency)
A view of a recovered cable being cut on the deck of the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) at sea (Colour transparency)
A view of the sea front in Singapore (Colour transparency)
A view looking forward of cable buoys on board the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) at sea (Colour transparency)
A view of a floating cable end buoy in the ocean taken from the deck of the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) at sea (Colour transparency)
Numerous yachts racing in the Solent (Colour transparency)
A view of Sir Mbarack Hinawy Road in Mombasa, Kenya (Colour transparency)
Looking towards Adderley Street in Cape Town, South Africa (Colour transparency)
A view of a sand dredger owned by the Penta-Ocean Construction Co. Ltd underway in the Suez Canal (Colour transparency)
A view of the wheelhouse of the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) at sea (Colour transparency)
A corer used for bottom samplers suspended over the sea off the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) (Colour transparency)
A view of the Auberge de Castile in Valletta, Malta (Colour transparency)
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