Merchant Marine officers who need to join their ship, leave dock on a Egyptian launch that takes them out to their ship, in Port Said, Egypt. (The launch flies an Egyptian flag design in use from 1922 through 1953.) When the officers arrive at their ship, deckhands lower a rope ladder and the officers climb aboard. View of steamship, SS Aeolia, underway. (This ship, launched as the Stuyvesant 1918, was acquired in 1950 and named, Aeolia, by Cia Naviera del Atlantica of Panama. It was managed for them by the Hellenic Mediterranean Lines, Piraeus.) Back of a sailor as the boat he is on passes a monument statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps at the Port Said entrance to the Suez Canal (this statue was removed circa 1957). Views of waters around Port Said with palm trees along shore and commercial shipping traffic in the waters.
British troops withdraw from Port Said in Egypt as UN Forces intervene during the Suez Crisis. A British warship in harbor at Port Said. Sunken ships in the harbor. Warship at the harbor. The British troops on the ship. The British troops with their equipment await to embark the ship. United Nations Forces Canadian Eedson Louis Millard Burns speaks to a British officer at the dock. The British troops march in squad. An Israeli man displays a large stock of modern Russian arms captured from Egypt. Men inspect the Russian weapons.