Empire Cavalier (1942)

EMPIRE CAVALIER (1942); A starboard broadside view; At anchor, Halifax NS. She has a dummy funnel rigged amidships, disguising her identity as a tanker, her engine exhausts being led up a pair of kingposts on the poop. Proceeding forward, a second pair of kingposts support the dummy funnel and there is a further pair right forward. She is not fitted with anti-torpedo net booms.

Object details

ID: P22238
Type: Historic Photographic Negative
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Empire Cavalier (1942)
Date made: 12 August 1943
People: H. M. Ministry of War Transport; Mungo Campbell & Co Ltd
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London