On board the Type 12 frigate HMS Lowestoft (1960) alongside the fitting out berth of Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd at Linthouse, Glasgow. The photographer is in the boatswain's, lamp and paint store between 2½ and 6 stations on 2 deck looking to port and aft from the starboard forward corner. A work bench fitted with a vice is against the port side of the hull and cringle bars are above it. A shelving rack holding drums of bituminous solution is in the port aft corner. In the foreground is the port chain pipe from 1 deck to the cable locker on 3 deck.