Phoenix units under construction in C Lock, Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire

Four Phoenix reinforced concrete caissons under construction in C Lock, Portsmouth Dockyard. The main 'hull' of each unit is complete and the construction of the 'superstructure' on each unit is well under way. A large number of floating pontoons are in the lock. The lock is flooded and the photographer is looking east-by-south from the north side of the east end of the lock. The Portsmouth Dockyard negative register number P18/44 has been written in the bottom left corner of the negative.

Object details

ID: N25396
Type: Negative
Materials: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 13 March 1944
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 101 mm x 127 mm