A smith and a hammerman using an anvil to shape a chain link in the chain making shop in No. 1 Smithery in Chatham Dockyard

A smith and a hammerman using an anvil to shape a chain link in the chain making shop in No. 1 Smithery in Chatham Dockyard. They are making an anchor chain cable and much of it is suspended under a beam supported by an overhead traveller. A circluar smelter is in the foreground. A museum copy of a photographic print. The original photographer is unknown.

Object Details

ID: PCT19787
Type: Monochrome transparency
Display location: Not on display
Creator: National Maritime Museum Photographic Studio.
Date made: 20 October 1963
Measurements: Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm;Transparency: 35 mm x 40 mm
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