"Ml Base Hydraulic Dock, Malta" image: a view of Valletta harbour with four Royal Navy motor launches moored side-by-side in the foreground. Further back to the right are further motor launches. All of these small vessels are painted in striped colour schemes, with dark and pale grey, to help distinguish them from enemy submarines. Further back various merchant vessels are moored in the harbour and distinctive Maltese buildings are visible along both edges of the water.