Well-dressed passengers disembark from a boat. There are businessmen, ladies with children and a nun. Deckhands sweeping and swilling the decks with a hose. Some of the deckhands have 'Cunard' written on their sweaters. The Captain walks along the deck towards the camera, followed by other senior officers. A man, probably the ship's cook, in a white apron and jacket, holds the ship's cat aloft. Maids pose for the camera as a group. They move off, evidently guided by the instructions of the unseen cameraman. An officer walks around the ship's instruments on the bridge to the Captain, who is posed with his hands on the Chadburn (the engine order telegraph); he pretends to send an instruction for the camera and salutes. A passenger ship sails by behind him.