Camouflaged steel plates set up in the Boat Pond, Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire

Twelve steel plates coated with various camouflage paints set up for weathering on the old timber pond piles in the Boat Pond off South Wall, Portsmouth Dockyard. Each plate has a notation on it such as BIII on RL, BIII on OP, American Paint on Red Lead, etc. A number of steam and motor launches are in the Boat Pond. The Portsmouth Dockyard negative register number P84/43 is scratched into the emulsion near the bottom left corner of the negative.