The Royal Fleet Auxiliary oiler Rapidol (1917) alongside the passenger liner Queen Mary (1936) at Cape Town.

A port near broadside view, taken from ahead of the beam, of the passenger liner Queen Mary (1936) at anchor off Cape Town with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary oiler Rapidol (1917) and a local tug alongside. The Rapidol supplied the liner with 6498 tons of furnace fuel oil. A copy negative of a photographic print.

Object Details

ID: P68548
Type: Sheet film negative
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Queen Mary (1936); Rapidol (1917)
Date made: 3 April 1940
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 118 mm x 163 mm
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