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

A starboard bow view of the Royal Navy coastal minesweeper support ship Manxman (1940) alongside the basin wall in Chatham Dockyard at the end of her conversion from a fast minelayer. The photographer is on the roadway looking aft and to port. Her pendant number is N70. Her starboard anchor is not fully housed in the hawse.

Object Details

ID: PM7643/9
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