The south end of No. 1 Basin, Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire

Looking south-west-by-south from the north-east corner of No. 1 Basin, Portsmouth Dockyard, showing the south end of the basin. The entrance to No. 5 dry Dock is in the left foreground. A motorized swim barge (LBV(2)) and a steam drifter (possibly the Craig Roy (1918) are berthed across the entrance to No. 4 Dry Dock. A mooring hulk and four motor fishing vessel tenders, including MFV 612 (1944) and MFV 93 (1944), are outside No. 3 Dry Dock. the stern of the Victory (1765) in No. 2 Dry Dock can be seen on the extreme left with the Semaphore Tower in the background. The U.S. Coast Guard patrol vessel USCG 54 (1943) is on the south side of the basin alongside the drifter Gloamin (1919) which is, in turn, alongside the headquarters landing craft LCH 269 (1942). Another LCH is in No. 1 Dry Dock with the tophamper of two Hunt class escort destroyers on South Railway Jetty in the background. The tug Sea Giant (1920) with a white letter M on the funnel is on Boat House Jetty with an Assurance class tug berthed outboard of her. The photograph was taken by Portsmouth Dockyard's resident photographer Robert William Wheeler using a 5" x 4" press plate camera.