The Type 12 frigate HMS Lowestoft (1960). In the sonar instrument compartment bertween 12½ and 16 stations on 3 deck.

On board the Type 12 frigate Lowestoft (1960) in No. 3 basin at Chatham Dockyard near the end of her modernisation which commenced 15 March 1968 and finished 31 May 1970. She was in the basin throughout May 1970. The photographer is in the sonar instrument compartment between 12½ and 16 stations on 3 deck looking to port from 13 station showing racks of sonar control cabinets on either side of a narrow passage. An electric fire is mounted on the port side at high level. A vertical format negative.

Object Details

ID: N65097
Collection: Historic Photographs
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Lowestoft (1960)
Date made: Before 29 May 1970
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Admiralty Collection
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