A starboard quarter view, taken from wide off the stern, of the motor lifeboat A from the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger cruise ship Viceroy of India (1929) under way in the old harbour at Palma, Majorca. She is heading for the landing place to pick up passengers returning from a shore excursion and is passing under a ship's bowsprit. Various leisure vessels are berthed stern-on to the harbour wall and a stores lighter is in the middle of the harbour. The photographer is looking north-east showing the Llotja De Palma cultural centre in the centre of the picture.