Bronze Age Gold from Wales

H.M.S. CHURCHILL, negative

Submarine H.M.S. CHURCHILL at Queen Alexandra Dock entrance lock, Cardiff.

Submarine - pennant no. S46. Laid down June 1967 by Vickers Engineering & Shipbuilding Ltd., Barrow-in-Furness, and completed and commissioned in 1970. She was the first of three Churchill-class nuclear powered submarines, and was euipped with a Rolls –Royce reactor, and fitted with pump-jet propulsion. She was de-commissioned in February 1991 and is currently (2013) laid up at Rosyth awaiting disposal. (wikipedia)( www.rnsubs.co.uk/Boats/BoatDB2/index.php?BoatID=685)

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

1996.96/1330

Historical Associations

Association Type: Place name
Place: Queen Alexandra Dock

Creation/Production

Role: Photographer
Period: 08/1972

Acquisition

donation, 14/5/1996

Measurements

Length (mm): 61
Width (mm): 90

Techniques

Film negative (black & white)
Film negative
Negative

Material

Film (photographic)
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