Item MM 38953 Photograph - Orient Line, RMS Orcades, Port Side Profile Under Steam, Firth of Clyde, Scotland, 1948

Summary

Orcades Book 1.

Description of Content

Port side three-quarter profile over bow showing of the newly-completed Orient Line passenger liner RMS Orcades, steaming at full speed with smoke trailing from the funnel, prominent white foam bow wave and wake. Photograph probably taken during the vessel's official speed trials conducted in the Firth of Forth, Scotland, November 1948.