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• NEW SLOOP FOR THE ROYAL INDIAN NAVY LAUNCHED AT YARROWS YARD, ON CLYDEBANK, 22 APRIL 1943, WITH THE CEREMONY PERFORMED BY MRS GODFREY, WIFE OF VICE ADMIRAL V H GODFREY, CB.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  The bottle breaking against the bows of the ship as Mrs Godfrey launches the sloop.

• NEW SLOOP FOR THE ROYAL INDIAN NAVY LAUNCHED AT YARROWS YARD, ON CLYDEBANK, 22 APRIL 1943, WITH THE CEREMONY PERFORMED BY MRS GODFREY, WIFE OF VICE ADMIRAL V H GODFREY, CB.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  The new sloop going down the slipway.

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beadell, S J (Lt)

  Shipbuilding: Riveters at work on a ship at the Armstrong Whitworth works in Sunderland, England.

• HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR SOUTH AFRICA VISITS SCOTTISH SHIPYARDS, APRIL 1943

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beadell, S J (Lt)

  Colonel Denys Reitz, the High Commissioner for South Africa, watching a Glasgow riveter at work during a two day tour of shipbuilding and naval repair yards in Scotland.

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Shipbuilding: Women dockyard workers at the blacksmith's forge when the destroyer HMS ASHANTI was undergoing a refit at Immingham.

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Coote R G G (Lt)

  Shipbuilding: Mrs Agnes Smith, a fifty year old mother of ten, was a forewoman of a Greenock shipbuilding yard. She had 45 women to look after and was experienced in most of their jobs herself. During the First World War she worked in an engineering shop...

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Cordite production at a Royal Naval armaments factory at Holton Heath. The long strings of cordite are combed by women workers in order to eliminate short lengths.

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Parnall C H (Lt)

  Shipbuilding: A burner in operation on the deck of a ship at night at Harland and Wolff's yard in Liverpool.

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Parnall, C H (Lt)

  Shipbuilding: A welder working on the deck housing of a ship at Brocklebank Dock, Liverpool.

• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Coote R G G (Lt)

  Shipbuilding: Drillers at work on a gun shield during the last day's production of the King George V class battleship HMS HOWE at Glasgow.