An image showing 'N25174; The first keel plate of the light cruiser Hawke in the process of being lowered onto the blocks of No. 5 Slip in Portsmouth Dockyard. The lowering is being watched by the Admiral Superintendent, Vice-Admiral Marshal Llewelyn Clarke CB, DSC and his sister with eight other dockyard officials and a Royal Navy Captain. No. 3 Smithery is in the background. The Portsmouth Dockyard negative register number P18/43 is written in the bottom left corner of the negative.'

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The keel laying of the light cruiser Hawke on No. 5 Slip, Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire

The first keel plate of the light cruiser Hawke in the process of being lowered onto the blocks of No. 5 Slip in Portsmouth Dockyard. The lowering is being watched by the Admiral Superintendent, Vice-Admiral Marshal Llewelyn Clarke CB, DSC and his sister with eight other dockyard officials and a Royal Navy Captain. No. 3 Smithery is in the background. The Portsmouth Dockyard negative register number P18/43 is written in the bottom left corner of the negative.

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Object details

ID:	N25174
Type:	Negative
Materials:	Glass plate negative
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	1 July 1943
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Overall: 101 mm x 127 mm