Empire Chapman (1942)

EMPIRE CHAPMAN (1942); A starboard quarter view; Anchored in the River Mersey prior to 8 Jun. 1943. She has a dummy funnel rigged amidships disguising her identity as a tanker and is fitted with anti-torpedo nets and booms supported on kingposts erected forward, amidships and on the poop, the last mentioned doubling as exhausts for her engines.

Object details

ID: G3812
Type: Negative
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Empire Chapman (1942)
Date made: 1942-1943
People: Sir R. Ropner & Co Ltd; H. M. Ministry of War Transport
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London