Yarmouth (1959) on board views on completion.

A half plate sheet film negative. On board the Type 12 frigate Yarmouth (1959) alongside the south-east corner of the fitting out basin in John Brown & Co Ltd's shipyard at Clydebank. In the gunbay on 2 deck between 20½ and 25½ stations. The photographer is looking forward and to port from the aft end of the bay showing bays 10, 11 and 12. Bay 12 contains a rectifier unit and an emergency lamp is on the girder between bays 11 and 12. A wooden control box is on the girder between bays 8 and 9 in the left foreground. The shell and cartridge troughs encircle the gun turret revolving platform and above the shell trough is a load indicator box for general service pump motor. A pressure gauge made by C.P. Stewart Ltd is on the right and a voice pipe is at the top of the picture.

Object Details

ID: N66443
Collection: Historic Photographs
Type: Sheet film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Portsmouth Dockyard Photographic Unit; John Brown & Company
Vessels: Yarmouth (1959)
Date made: 1957-11-29; 1957-12-03 1957-12-25 1958-02-06 1958-02-20 1958-03-07 1958-04-01 1958-04-21 1958-05-09 1958-06-09 1958-07-01 1958-08-05 1958-08-25 1958-09-09 1958-10-07 1958-10-27 1958-11-19 1958-12-15 1959-01-19 1959-02-10 1959-03-09 1959-03-23 1959-04-14 1959-05-06 1959-05-21 1959-06-09 1959-07-03 1959-09-08 1959-10-06 1959-10-59 1959-11-17 1959-12-14 1960-02-12 1960-03-03 1960-03 1968-09 1969-1976 1974-12-12 1981-05
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London