Alongside the port side amidships of the British India Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Chakdara (1951) during the unloading of a cargo of Tanganyika sisal at Sunderland, Durham.

Alongside the port side amidships of the British India Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Chakdara (1951) during the unloading of a cargo of Tanganyika sisal at Sunderland, Durham. The photographer is looking forward and to starboard from the ground floor stage of the storage shed showing a dockside crane swinging bales of sisal ashore from number 3 or number 4 hold. Negatives PM1792/4A to PM1796/30A were taken on the same occasion.

Object Details

ID: PM1796/28A
Type: 35mm negative
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Chakdara (1951)
Date made: 1960-1964
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, P & O Collection
Measurements: Film length: 35 mm x 190 mm;Image: 25 mm x 37 mm