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 communications and juniors mess between 23 and 27 stations on 3 deck looking to starboard and forward. Mess tables and stools and the stairs up to 2 deck are in the foreground. Kit lockers are in the centre of the mess with tea and sugar lockers in front of them and a hammock stowage bin behind them. A greatcoat locker, mess cleaning gear locker and kit lockers are against the forward bulkhead. Two electric fires are mounted at the base of the cable trunk in the centre of the forward bulkhead. Hammock rails are under the deckhead.