Implacable passing HMS Dolphin to be scuttled off St Katherine’s Deep, south of Isle of Wight

A small contact print. A distant view taken from an upper floor of a house in Bath Square, Old Portsmouth, looking towards the 74-gun third rate HMS Implacable being towed past HMS Dolphin (Submarine Base) to be scuttled off St Katherine’s Deep, south of Isle of Wight.

The upper works of the ship have been stripped off, including her figurehead and stern board decoration (now in the National Maritime Museum) and she is flying both the French Tricolour and British White Ensign from the stern.

Object Details

ID: REG16/000393.3
Type: Photographic print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Fisher, Thomas Henry
Vessels: Implacable (captured 1805)
Date made: 2 December 1949
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 33 mm x 44 mm