A mooring party on board a workboat in a basin in Chatham Dockyard

A mooring party on board a workboat in a basin in Chatham Dockyard. Leaning against the funnel is Jack Young, a hammerman who seerved in the dockyard from 1929 to 1965. Astern of the workboat, and seen from off her starboard quarter, is the twin screw dockyard tug Perseverance (1931) alongside a sloop or frigate. A museum copy of a photographic print donated by Jack Young.

Object Details

ID: PCT19783
Type: Monochrome transparency
Display location: Not on display
Creator: National Maritime Museum Photographic Studio.
Vessels: Perseverance (1931)
Date made: June 1949
People: Young, Jack
Measurements: Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm;Transparency: 35 mm x 40 mm