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

Looking north-east from near 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 Caterpillar bulldozer is next to one of the tripod legs of a scotch crane owned by William Cowlin & Son Ltd. The Portsmouth Dockyard negative register number P37/44 has been written near the bottom left corner of the negative

Object details

ID: N25413
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