An image showing 'N25302; A close view looking down on the starboard side of X gun platform on the stern section of the destroyer Porcupine (1941) laid up in No. 3 Basin, Portsmouth Dockyard, berthed on the quay between No. 13 and No. 14 Dry Docks. The stern section is known as Pine and the photographer is standing in the port bridge wing on the bow section, known as Pork, which is berthed inboard of Pine.'

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The hulks of the destroyer Porcupine (1941) in No. 3 Basin, Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire

A close view looking down on the starboard side of X gun platform on the stern section of the destroyer Porcupine (1941) laid up in No. 3 Basin, Portsmouth Dockyard, berthed on the quay between No. 13 and No. 14 Dry Docks. The stern section is known as Pine and the photographer is standing in the port bridge wing on the bow section, known as Pork, which is berthed inboard of Pine. The Portsmouth Dockyard negative register number P179/43 has been written in the bottom left corner of the negative.

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Object details

ID:	N25302
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