The former British Power Boat Co Ltd boatyard at Hythe, Hampshire

The former boatyard of the British Power Boat Co. Ltd. The company was formed 30 September 1927 to use R Kemp's Hythe Boatyard which Hubert-Scott Paine had purchased in the same year. The British Power Boat Company became a limited liability company in June 1938 and was liquidated in 1947. In 1989 this site was occupied by Dreamland Electric Blanket Company. The photographer is looking along the shore of Southampton Water showing a corrugated iron clad single storey building with georgian wired glass windows running parallel to the shore. In the left background is the concrete pier of the Hythe Marine Park and backing onto it is a row of four corrugated iron clad buildings under double pitched roofs. Two rectangular oil tanks are in a brick bund at the water's edge.

Object Details

ID: N61846
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Studio, National Maritime Museum Photographic
Date made: 6 April 1989
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 62 mm x 76 mm