An image showing 'N25357; A port broadside midship detail of the former hopper barge W24 (Persephone) (1938) alongside a jetty in Portsmouth Dockyard, taken from the quayside. Everything forward of her oerlikon gun platforms and aft of her bridge is out of the picture. She has been fitted with a 48 feet diameter drum to lay Hammel cable pipe under the sea. This vessel was named Persephone at some time during the conversion.'

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The former hopper barge W24 (Persephone) (1938) in Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire

A port broadside midship detail of the former hopper barge W24 (Persephone) (1938) alongside a jetty in Portsmouth Dockyard, taken from the quayside. Everything forward of her oerlikon gun platforms and aft of her bridge is out of the picture. She has been fitted with a 48 feet diameter drum to lay Hammel cable pipe under the sea. This vessel was named Persephone at some time during the conversion. A paddle tug, either the Grappler (1908) or the Sprite (1915), is berthed outboard of her.

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Object details

ID:	N25357
Type:	Negative
Materials:	Glass plate negative
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	17 March 1943
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Overall: 101 mm x 127 mm