Photograph of MV Derbyshire memorial service aboard MV Cambridgeshire, Bibby Line

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Colour photograph by Carl Greenall, 21 September 1980. Image shows a memorial service being held on the deck of the Bibby Line vessel MV Cambridgeshire, for the crew of MV Derbyshire, all of whom lost their lives when the Derbyshire sank off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, during Typhoon Orchid, on 9 September 1980. Photographer Carl Greenall was 3rd Officer aboard MV Cambridgeshire.