A smith and a hammerman forging the foot of a stanchion in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard. The smith, wearing green overalls, is standing by the B & S Massey steam hammer holding a long-handled weight while a hammerman, wearing white overalls, is using a pair of tongs to hold the red-hot foot of the stanchion on the base of the hammer. A vertical format image. Transparencies numbers PCT3331 to PCT3335 were taken during the same operation.