Item MM 38954 Photograph - Orient Line, RMS Orcades, Starboard Side Profile Under Steam, Firth of Clyde, Scotland, 1948

Summary

Orcades Book 1.

Description of Content

Starboard side profile showing of the newly-completed Orient Line passenger liner RMS Orcades, steaming at full speed with a light wisp of 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.