The guided missile destroyer HMS Kent (1961). In the Seaslug missile launcher well between 176 and 180 stations on 3 deck.

On board the guided missile destroyer HMS Kent (1961) alongside the Harland & Wolff Ltd fitting out berth in the Musgrave Channel, Belfast. The photographer is in the seaslug missile launcher well between 176 and 180 stations on 3 deck looking forward and to starboard from the door which is on the port side of the well. On the left is a box containing elevating motor dismantling gear and next to it is a metal cupboard and drawers unit with a vice mounted on it. The missile training gear is manufactured by Metropolitan Vickers Ltd. A vertical format negative.

Object Details

ID: N66754
Collection: Historic Photographs
Type: Sheet film negative
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Kent (1961)
Date made: 10 August 1963
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Admiralty Collection
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