New tank ramp and platform on board the tank landing craft LCT 2285 (1942) in Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire.

Looking from starboard aft to port forward across the tank deck of the tank landing craft LCT 2285 (1942) in Portsmouth Dockyard, from a sister craft moored alongside, showing the newly installed tank ramps and platform. The work is almost complete. She is at moorings with a sister craft to starboard and the oil fuel lighter C 622 (1943) to port. On a separate mooring in the background are tugs, lighters and landing craft. In the distance are the training ships Foudroyant (1817) and Implacable (1800). The Portsmouth Dockyard negative register number P127/44 has been written in the bottom right corner of the negative.

Object details

ID: N25456
Type: Negative
Materials: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 1 April 1944 - 7 April 1944
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 101 mm x 127 mm