Demolition of 100 ton sheerlegs at No. 3 Basin, Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire.

The lower ends of the front legs of the 100 ton sheerlegs between nos. 13 and 14 Docks on the south side of No. 3 Basin, Portsmouth Dockyard, seen from the south-east. A gang of riggers is wiring up some cabling in the left foreground and next to them is a stack of pinned wooden baulks topped with sandbags. The royal yacht Victoria & Albert (1899) is in the left background berthed on the west side of the basin. The upper works of the battlecruiser Repulse (1916) can just be seen docked down in C Lock on the right.