A smoky M.V 'Liverpool Bay' is seen, having left the port of Southampton, passing through the Solent at Cowes in 1991. The container ship is presumably on its regular route from Southampton to the Far East and back again. 'Liverpool Bay' was one of the first large container ships, and was one of a class of six, all with names ending in 'bay'. The ship is 950ft long, could do over 27 ½ knots, and, when new in 1972, could do the work of over 30 conventional cargo freighters with a capacity of 2961 containers. 'Liverpool Bay' was built for OCL (Overseas Containers Limited) which eventually became part of P&O, then P&O Nedlloyd and then Maersk. The ship was scrapped in 1998. The newest container ships are carrying upwards of 11,000 containers.

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