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

28 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 AI on OP, AI on RL, BII on OP, etc. A number of steam and motor launches are in the Boat Pond and a diesel engined Bangor class minesweeper is alongside South Railway Jetty. The Portsmouth Dockyard negative register number P85/43 is scratched into the emulsion near the bottom left corner of the negative.