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The cocktail bar on board a Peninsular and Oriental Group passenger vessel. (Colour transparency)
A starboard broadside waterline pen and ink illustration of the Lauritzen-Peninsular Reefers refrigerated cargo ship Wild Auk (1971). (Colour transparency)
A starboard broadside waterline pen and ink illustration of the P & O refrigerated cargo liner Manapouri (1968). (Colour transparency)
A starboard bow view of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger/cargo liner Arcadia (1954) coming alongside a wharf at Suva, Fiji Islands. (Colour transparency)
A slightly distant starboard bow view of a Naples Pilot Launch (Fl. 1959), taken from on board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger/cargo liner Arcadia (1954). (Colour transparency)
The pilot Captain Trowsdale boarding the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger/cargo liner Arcadia (1954) in British waters. (Colour transparency)
Passengers playing deck quoits on board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger cruise ship Iberia (1954) while at sea. (Colour transparency)
A port bow view of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger cruise ship Arcadia (1954) alongside Berths 30-31 on the Itchen Quays, Southampton. (Colour transparency)
Captain Cook Bicentenary decorations at the Customs House, Circular Quay, Sydney, New South Wales. (Colour transparency)
A view along the length of a narrow tank inside a testing tank establishment. (Colour transparency)
A close view of the port side of the hull of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger/cargo liner Corfu (1931) alongside a berth in the King George V Dock, London. (Colour transparency)
A general view of the northern part of Gibraltar harbour from the slopes of the rock above the town. (Colour transparency)
The pilot Captain Trowsdale getting on board his motor launch in a British port to be taken out to the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger/cargo liner Arcadia (1954). (Colour transparency)
Men on board the motor passenger launch Princess Mary (1922) on the River Bure at St. Benets Abbey, Norfolk. (Colour transparency)
A starboard near broadside view, taken from just abaft the beam, of the Federal Steam Navigation Company refrigerated cargo ship Wild Mallard (1968) alongside a wharf in an unknown location. (Colour transparency)
A slightly distant port quarter view of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger/cargo liner Arcadia (1954) alongside a wharf at Suva, Fiji Islands. (Colour transparency)
A shopping street scene in an unknown Japanese coastal town. (Colour transparency)
A port bow view of the Federal Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Otaki (1953) manoeuvring with tug assistance in Sydney harbour, New South Wales, Australia. (Colour transparency)
A close view of the bulbous bow of a large vessel in dry dock. (35mm Colour transparency)
Looking aft from the starboard bridge wing on board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger/cargo liner Arcadia (1954) while in port. (Colour transparency)
Stacks of short, sawn timber battens in the hold of a steel lighter, numbered 565, in a warm weather foreign port, possibly in East Africa. (Colour transparency)
On board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger/cargo liner Arcadia (1954) during lifeboat drill while under way in the Adriatic. (Colour transparency)
A distant starboard bow view of the Costa Rican general cargo ship Dimitris (1943) at anchor and moored in the River Maas at Rotterdam. (Colour transparency)
The decorated facade of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company offices at 55 Hunter Street, Sydney, New South Wales. (Colour transparency)
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