Fitting heavy ramps? to an LCT Mark 5, possibly LCT (5) 2240, in No. 2 Basin, Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire.

Shipwrights fitting armour plates to a large steel construction in the tank deck of a Mark 5 tank landing craft in No. 2 Basin, Portsmouth Dockyard, taken from on board her port side looking forward and to starboard from the port side rear of her tank deck. The Portsmouth Dockyard negative register number P31/44 has been written in the bottom left corner of the negative and the description given in this register is "fitting of heavy ramps for tanks". The ship may be LCT (5) 2240.

Object details

ID: N25409
Type: Negative
Materials: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 10 February 1944
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 101 mm x 127 mm