An image showing 'N25176; The first keel plate of the light cruiser Hawke laid onto the blocks of No. 5 Slip in Portsmouth Dockyard by Miss Clarke, the sister of the Admiral Superintendent, Vice-Admiral Marshal Llewelyn Clarke CB, DSC, who is watching. Eleven dockyard officials, a Royal Navy Captain and a Commodore are also in the photograph. One of the officials is laying the declivity board on the centre of the keel plate. No. 3 Smithery is in the background.'

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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 laid onto the blocks of No. 5 Slip in Portsmouth Dockyard by Miss Clarke, the sister of the Admiral Superintendent, Vice-Admiral Marshal Llewelyn Clarke CB, DSC, who is watching. Eleven dockyard officials, a Royal Navy Captain and a Commodore are also in the photograph. One of the officials is laying the declivity board on the centre of the keel plate. No. 3 Smithery is in the background. The Portsmouth Dockyard negative register number P20/43 is written in the bottom left corner of the negative.

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Object details

ID:	N25176
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