An image showing 'N25412; Looking east from the west end of the roadway on the south side of C Lock in Portsmouth Dockyard showing the temporary scaffolding and corrugated iron store pens holding the various grades of sand, ballast and shingle used in the construction of the Phoenix floating caissons in C Lock. A small mechanical shovel registered GV8376 is in the vright foreground. A scotch crane owned by William Cowlin & Son Ltd is seen above the roof line of the pens.'

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The Phoenix units construction yard on the south side of C Lock, Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire.

Looking east from the west end of the roadway on the south side of C Lock in Portsmouth Dockyard showing the temporary scaffolding and corrugated iron store pens holding the various grades of sand, ballast and shingle used in the construction of the Phoenix floating caissons in C Lock. A small mechanical shovel registered GV8376 is in the vright foreground. A scotch crane owned by William Cowlin & Son Ltd is seen above the roof line of the pens. The Portsmouth Dockyard negative register number P36/44 has been written in the bottom left corner of the negative

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Object details

ID:	N25412
Type:	Negative
Materials:	Glass plate negative
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	12 February 1944
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Overall: 101 mm x 127 mm