An image showing 'N24566; Looking along the length of the 15 inch guns from the top of A turret on its centreline on the battlecruiser Repulse (1916) showing a retaining collar on the left gun about to be hoisted clear. the turret is trained off the starboard bow. The ship is berthed under the 250 ton hammerhead crane on the north side of the promontory in No. 3 Basin of Portsmouth Dockyard. Her 15 inch guns are being replaced during a three year modernization.'

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Removing the left gun in A turret of the battlecruiser Repulse (1916) in No. 3 Basin, Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire.

Looking along the length of the 15 inch guns from the top of A turret on its centreline on the battlecruiser Repulse (1916) showing a retaining collar on the left gun about to be hoisted clear. the turret is trained off the starboard bow. The ship is berthed under the 250 ton hammerhead crane on the north side of the promontory in No. 3 Basin of Portsmouth Dockyard. Her 15 inch guns are being replaced during a three year modernization.

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Object details

ID:	N24566
Type:	Negative
Materials:	Glass plate negative
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	February 1935
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Overall: 100 mm x 126 mm