The MV "St. Ninian" was built in 1950 to go on the Leith-Aberdeen-Lerwick run for the North of Scotland, Orkney & Shetland Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., and provided this once-weekly service until around 1970, when it ceased, and she was sold to Canadian owners. She is pictured passing the Bressay lighthouse at the start of her regular trip south on a Wednesday evening.

The painting is 24 x 18 inches in size, and is in oils on hardboard.  It was bought from the permanent "mini-exhibition" in the Lounge Bar, Lerwick.