An image showing 'N25582; On board the damaged corvette Pink (1942) in No. 8 Dry Dock, Portsmouth Dockyard, looking forward along the starboard side of the upper deck from about frame 82 showing corrugations to the deck and a bent bulwark at about frame 72. A depth charge thrower is on the left 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 along the starboard side of the upper deck from about frame 82 showing corrugations to the deck and a bent bulwark at about frame 72. A depth charge thrower is on the left 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:	N25582
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