A smith working at his bench in the spring making workshop in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard.

A smith working at his bench in the spring making workshop in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard. A long handled tool is clamped in the vice and he is pulling the handle down over a spring fitted to the base of the tool, which has a marlin spike in it. In his left hand he is holding a pair of tongs against the base of the tool. An electric pedestal drill, a tin of electrodes and a range of tools are on the bench. Various springs are on the bench in the foreground. Transparencies numbers PCT3306 to PCT3308 was taken on the same occasion.

Object Details

ID: PCT3308
Type: Colour transparency
Display location: Not on display
Creator: National Maritime Museum Photographic Studio.
Date made: May - June 1983
Measurements: Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm;Transparency: 35 mm x 40 mm
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