A distant port side view, taken from well abaft the beam, of the Orient Line cruise ship Otranto (1925) at moorings in Grand Harbour, Malta. She has an accommodation ladder rigged aft and a number of boats are next to it. She is flying the Blue Peter from the port yardarm on her foremast. The photographer is looking east-by-south from the Upper Barrakka Gardens above the saluting battery showing Fort St. Angelo on the right, Ricasoli on the left and The Royal Naval Hospiital at Bighi in the centre background. A British India Line passenger/cargo ship is berthed stern-on to Quarry Wharf in the left foreground.