Collision damage to steam gun boat Grey Seal (1941) in Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire

A close view of the collision damaged starboard bow of the steam gun boat Grey Seal (1941) alongside in Portsmouth Dockyard, taken from just abaft the bow. She has a 20 mm oerlikon cannon fitted as a bowchaser. The Grey Seal (1941) was damaged in collision with the Grey Wolf (1941) off Cherbourg on 27 Jul. 1943. The Portsmouth Dockyard negative register number P50/43 is written in the bottom left corner of the negative.

Object details

ID: N25200
Type: Negative
Materials: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 28 July 1943
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 101 mm x 127 mm