An image showing 'N25581; On board the damaged corvette Pink (1942) in No. 8 Dry Dock, Portsmouth Dockyard, looking forward and to starboard along the extended forecastle deck from frame 86 showing corrugations to the deck at about frame 83. The engine room skylight is in the middle of the photograph. The Pink was hit by a Gnat acoustic torpedo fired from the German submarine U 988 off Normandy on 27 Jun. 1944. She was written off as a constructive total loss.'

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The torpedo damaged corvette Pink (1942) in No. 8 Dry Dock, Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire

On board the damaged corvette Pink (1942) in No. 8 Dry Dock, Portsmouth Dockyard, looking forward and to starboard along the extended forecastle deck from frame 86 showing corrugations to the deck at about frame 83. The engine room skylight is in the middle of the photograph. The Pink was hit by a Gnat acoustic torpedo fired from the German submarine U 988 off Normandy on 27 Jun. 1944. She was written off as a constructive total loss.

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Object details

ID:	N25581
Type:	Negative
Materials:	Glass plate negative
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	30 June 1944
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Overall: 101 mm x 127 mm