The guided missile destroyer HMS Kent (1961). In the operations room between 58 and 66 stations on 2 deck.

On board the guided missile destroyer HMS Kent (1961) in No. 3 Basin in Chatham Dockyard, Kent. The photographer is in the operations room between 58 and 66 stations on 2 deck looking to port and slightly aft from just to starboard of the centreline at 63½ station showing a workbench with cupboards and drawers under and bookshelves above and an automatic emergency lantern fixed to a pillar in the right foreground. A visual display unit and the control console for the 3 inch rocket launchers are in the left foreground. The fleet stateboard, the A/S A/C stateboard and the fleet disposition board are against the aft bulkhead and the chart table is in the port aft corner. A plotting table is on the port side of the room. An automatic emergency lantern is by the side of the door in the port bulkhead.

Object Details

ID: N66787
Collection: Historic Photographs
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Kent (1961)
Date made: 4 April 1968
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Admiralty Collection