The coastal minesweeper support ship Manxman (1940) berthed alongside in Chatham Dockyard.

A close starboard broadside view of the aft deckhouse and aft twin 40mm bofors gun mount of the Royal Navy coastal minesweeper support ship Manxman (1940) which is alongside the basin wall in Chatham Dockyard at the end of her conversion from a fast minelayer. The photographer is on the roadway looking to port showing the crane on deck abreast the deckhouse.

Object Details

ID: PM7643/7
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Wettern, Desmond Robert French
Vessels: Manxman (1940)
Date made: January - February 1963
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection
Measurements: Film length: 35 mm x 190 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm