An image showing 'N26956; An 82 ton British Thompson Houston transformer being hoisted from the Promontory in No. 3 Basin, Portsmouth Dockyard, by the 240 ton hammerhead crane. It is about to be loaded onto the Clyde Shipping Co's vessel which is berthed outboard of a Wave class fleet oiler berthed on the south side of the Promontory. The photographer is looking north-west-by-west and the fleet replenishment ship Bulawayo (1937) is in the background berthed on the north side of the Promontory.'

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Shipping a BTH transformer from the Promontory in No. 3 Basin, Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire

An 82 ton British Thompson Houston transformer being hoisted from the Promontory in No. 3 Basin, Portsmouth Dockyard, by the 240 ton hammerhead crane. It is about to be loaded onto the Clyde Shipping Co's vessel which is berthed outboard of a Wave class fleet oiler berthed on the south side of the Promontory. The photographer is looking north-west-by-west and the fleet replenishment ship Bulawayo (1937) is in the background berthed on the north side of the Promontory.

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Object details

ID:	N26956
Type:	Negative
Materials:	Glass plate negative
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	22 October 1948
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Overall: 101 mm x 126 mm