An image showing 'N24879; A starboard quarter view, taken from wide off the stern, of the destroyer Cameron (1919) burnt out and capsized to port in No. 8 Dry Dock, Portsmouth Dockyard. Her stern is out of the picture. She was hit by a bomb during an air raid on 5 Dec. 1940, was bodily moved off the keel blocks and caught fire. The dock was partially flooded by the efforts to extinguish the blaze. No. 1 Ship Shop and crane 179 are badly damaged.'

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The destroyer Cameron (1919) in No. 8 Dock, Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire

A starboard quarter view, taken from wide off the stern, of the destroyer Cameron (1919) burnt out and capsized to port in No. 8 Dry Dock, Portsmouth Dockyard. Her stern is out of the picture. She was hit by a bomb during an air raid on 5 Dec. 1940, was bodily moved off the keel blocks and caught fire. The dock was partially flooded by the efforts to extinguish the blaze. No. 1 Ship Shop and crane 179 are badly damaged.

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Object details

ID:	N24879
Type:	Negative
Materials:	Glass plate negative
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	circa 6 December 1940
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Overall: 101 mm x 126 mm