The guided missile destroyer HMS Kent (1961). In the enclosed bridge on 02 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 looking to starboard from the port side of the enclosed bridge on 02 deck showing the raised central platform with the covered pelorus, the captain's chair and a fleet disposition board. A desk and switchboard for a communications rating and an electric fire are against the side of the central platform. The arched opening into the officers' cabin flat is in the aft bulkhead and the door to the starboard bridge wing is in the right background.

Object Details

ID: N66760
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