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Back splice
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documentary artifact: knot collection
documentary artifact: photonegative, film
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surveying & navigational t&e: backstaff
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water transport: passenger vessel: liner
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Garner, Will
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Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd
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A smith using a mobile oxy-acetylene torch in one of the bays of Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
Inside Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard, looking across one end. (Colour transparency)
A close view of the blade and bed of a Henry Berry & Co. Ltd. hydraulic press in one of the main bays in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
The Canadian Navy submarine Onondaga (1965) on Number 7 Slip, behind a formal group of the personnel responsible for her construction, in Chatham Dockyard. (Monochrome transparency)
Looking down from an elevated position inside Number 1 Boiler Shop in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
A smith and a hammerman forging a large square billet using an heavy duty B & S Massey steam hammer in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
A man using an electric overhead traveller to lower metal items into the tank in the zinc galvanising shop in Number 1 Boiler Shop in Chatham Dockyard (Colour transparency)
A small hearth in the north-west corner of the north bay in No. 1 Smithery in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
A smith making a chain at his bench in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
Three smiths sitting near on open furnace inside the extension in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
Inside the north bay extension in No. 1 Smithery in Chatham Dockyard, looking north-west and up from area A19. (Colour transparency)
A smith cutting the end off a completed spring in the spring making workshop in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
An oven range in a portable cookhouse in Chatham Dockyard (Monochrome transparency)
A smith making a chain at his bench in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
A close up view of the lock mechanism of a steel safe in the locksmiths' workshop in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
A general view of track mounted crane number 498 alongside No. 4 Dock in Chatham Dockyard, taken from an elevated position on a crane adjoining No. 3 Slip Shed. (Colour transparency)
A smith using a S. Russell & Sons Ltd heavy duty metal sawing machine, Yard No. 1347, in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
A smith making a new spring using the John Bull coiling machine in the spring making workshop in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
Looking into an open gas-fired furnace in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
A B & S Massey Ltd steam hammer in No. 1 Smithery in Chatham Dockyard. (Monochrome transparency)
A smith making a new spring using the John Bull coiling machine in the spring making workshop in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
A general view of the main facade of No. 1 Smithery in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
The stair well inside the Master Smith's cabin at the west end of the centre bay in No. 1 Smithery in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
A smith at his bench working on a nearly completed spring in the spring making workshop in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
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