Item MM 38955 Photograph - Orient Line, RMS Orcades, Starboard Side Stern Profile, Firth of Clyde, Scotland, 1948

Summary

Orcades Book 1.

Description of Content

Starboard side three-quarter profile from astern showing of the newly-completed Orient Line passenger liner RMS Orcades, steaming at full speed in the with 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.