A general purpose motor launch under way in Portsmouth Harbour, Hampshire.

A starboard broadside view of an unidentified general purpose motor launch under way in Portsmouth Harbour. The launch has her engine amidships and is fitted with a funnel, aft of which is a steering shelter and an open aft cockpit with towing bollards either side of the transom. Laid up at moorings in the background is the light cruiser Royalist (1942), seen from off her port beam.

Object details

ID: N27079
Type: Negative
Materials: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Date made: November 1948 - December 1948
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 89 mm x 120 mm