Steel dolphins in Stokes Bay, Gosport, Hampshire

On board a boat offshore in Stokes Bay looking east-south-east to Stokes Bay Pier and showing a four-legged steel dolphin in the foreground. The pier is part of the Torpedo Experimental Station of HMS Vernon. There are five searchlights or signal projectors on the pier and some boats are at the pierhead, which is covered in temporary buildings.

Object details

ID: N25403
Type: Negative
Materials: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 8 February 1944
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 101 mm x 127 mm