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

Looking across the building slip from port to starboard near the stern of the light cruiser Hawke on No. 5 Slip in Portsmouth Dockyard, showing the wooden former for the stern frame cut-up of the hull. No. 3 Ship Shop is in the background. The Portsmouth Dockyard negative register number P150/43 has been written near the bottom left corner of the negative.

Object details

ID: N25280
Type: Negative
Materials: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 5 October 1943
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 101 mm x 127 mm