Slinging ammunition at Priddys Hard Naval Armament Depot, Gosport, Hampshire

15 wooden ammunition boxes in a steel mesh net suspended over a lighter while being hoisted from the quayside at Priddys Hard Naval Armament Depot, Gosport, onto a vessel. Each box contains 5 inch No. 5 Mark 1/N rockets. Various vessels and lighters are in the background. The vessel on the right is the dockyard tug TID 106 (1944)

Object details

ID: N27062
Type: Negative
Materials: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Date made: November 1948
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 101 mm x 126 mm