An image showing 'N25484; Looking east along the floating dock AFD 11 (1924) from the top of the south side wall in the centre of the dock. The dock is moored in Fountain Lake, Portsmouth Dockyard. The floor of the dock is cluttered with wooden towers, steel reinforcing, scaffolding, timber, concrete rubble and railway tracks, the aftermath of the construction in the dock of phoenix floating caisson units. A large number of men are working to clear the chaos.'

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Admiralty Floating Dock 11 (1924) in Fountain Lake, Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire.

Looking east along the floating dock AFD 11 (1924) from the top of the south side wall in the centre of the dock. The dock is moored in Fountain Lake, Portsmouth Dockyard. The floor of the dock is cluttered with wooden towers, steel reinforcing, scaffolding, timber, concrete rubble and railway tracks, the aftermath of the construction in the dock of phoenix floating caisson units. A large number of men are working to clear the chaos. The Portsmouth Dockyard negative register number P160/44 has been written in the bottom left corner of the negative.

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Object details

ID:	N25484
Type:	Negative
Materials:	Glass plate negative
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	8 May 1944
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Overall: 101 mm x 127 mm