An image showing 'N24919; Looking north between numbers 13 and 14 Dry Docks in Portsmouth Dockyard showing a badly bomb damaged air raid shelter. Workmen have shored up the sides of a trench to be able to repair the underground services. In the background is the battleship Queen Elizabeth (1913) under the 250 ton hammerhead crane on the Promontory in No. 3 Basin.'

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Bomb damage to air raid shelter between 13 and 14 Dry Docks, Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire

Looking north between numbers 13 and 14 Dry Docks in Portsmouth Dockyard showing a badly bomb damaged air raid shelter. Workmen have shored up the sides of a trench to be able to repair the underground services. In the background is the battleship Queen Elizabeth (1913) under the 250 ton hammerhead crane on the Promontory in No. 3 Basin. The Floating crane in front of the 250 ton crane was taken as war reparation from Germany after WW1 and was given the title Crane Lighter 1. The raid was in the evening of 5th December.

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Object details

ID:	N24919
Type:	Negative
Materials:	Glass plate negative
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	December 1940
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Overall: 101 mm x 127 mm