English: The Royal Navy during the Second World War
In this machine, commonly called a "whirler", zinc plates are given a sensitised coating. Photographic negatives are then printed down on to these plates, from which the copies of the charts are printed. The machine is being tended by Sergeant W H Baldwin, RM, of Nottingham on board HMS WHITE BEAR, a hydrographic survey vessel serving with the East Indies Fleet, at Colombo. She acts as headquarters for smaller vessels which penetrate small creeks and rivers to survey areas either uncharted or not charted for many years. The data obtained by these ships is then transformed into charts for allied shipping, with the help of a printing plant which makes HMS WHITE BEAR a floating advanced printing unit.
Date
between 1939 and 1945
date QS:P571,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1939-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1945-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Admiralty Official Collection
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Royal Navy, WHITE BEAR (HMS)
Associated places
Colombo, Ceylon
Associated themes
Royal Navy 1939-1945
Associated keywords
navigation
Category
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photographs
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yes
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