Professor Taylor's Experiment in No. 3 Basin, Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire

A view of a contraption suspended from a crane on the south side of No. 3 Basin in Portsmouth Dockyard. In the background and seen from wide off her starboard bow is the Polish destroyer Burza (1929). Her pendant number is H73. The Portsmouth Dockyard negative register describes this photograph as "Prof. Taylor's Experiment" and the order for the photographic work was placed by the Superintendent Scientist.

Object details

ID: N25072
Type: Negative
Materials: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 25 February 1942
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 101 mm x 127 mm