The construction of a G78 LILO unit in Admiralty Floating Dock 11 (1924) in Fountain Lake, Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire.

A G78 LILO unit under construction on the floor of Admiralty Floating Dock 11 (1924) which is moored in Fountain Lake, Portsmouth Dockyard. The rubber airbag BX-01 has been fixed to a hollow concrete tube and inflated. Only the centre part of the LILO unit is in the picture. The photographer is looking across the dock from the south side wall between the middle and the east end of the dock. The Portsmouth Dockyard negative register number P162/43 has been written in the bottom left corner of the negative.

Object details

ID: N25292
Type: Negative
Materials: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Date made: October 1943
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 101 mm x 127 mm