The Type 12 frigate HMS Falmouth (1959). In the main passageway between 30⅔ and 41 stations on 2 deck.

On board the Type 12 frigate HMS Falmouth (1959) alongside the Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd fitting out berth at Wallsend on the River Tyne between 1 and 25 July 1961. The photographer is in the main passageway, known as the Burma Road, between 30⅔ and 41 stations on 2 deck looking forward from 33 station showing stairs down to 3 deck, the door of the switchboard room, stairs up to 1 deck, a fuse panel, an emergency connection box and a transformer on the right. A screw-down escape scuttle is in the deck abaft the open watertight door and the 4.5 inch gun bay is at the end of the passage. Two emergency connection boxes and a covered emergency cable stowage are on the left. A vertical format negative.

Object Details

ID: N65793
Collection: Historic Photographs
Type: Sheet film negative
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Falmouth (1959)
Date made: July 1961
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Admiralty Collection
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