On board the guided missile destroyer HMS Kent (1961) in No. 3 Basin in Chatham Dockyard, Kent. The photographer is in the main communications office between 66 and 71 stations on 2 deck looking forward and to starboard from the centre of the office showing three bays equipped with typewriter/teleprinters and with two sliding door cupboards above them. A secure speech distribution panel is on the left and a rack containing three Plessey receive/transmit units is on the right. A vertical format negative.