The guided missile destroyer HMS Kent (1961). In the lower bridge between 52 and 56 stations on 02 deck.
On board the guided missile destroyer HMS Kent (1961) in No. 3 Basin in Chatham Dockyard, Kent. The photographer is in the lower bridge between 52 and 56 stations on 02 deck looking forward and to port from the centreline at 55½ station showing a communications desk equipped with two telephones, two microphones, a morse key and a voice control unit. A siren control panel is between the desk and the door. A telephone switchboard and desk are on the right against the port side of the upper bridge platform. A swivel pedestal chair is in the middle of the space, also on the right of the picture. A signal projector in the port bridge wing has a prancing horse logo fixed to the rear of it.
Object Details
ID: | N66789 |
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Collection: | Historic Photographs |
Type: | Roll film negative |
Display location: | Not on display |
Vessels: | Kent (1961) |
Date made: | 8 April 1968 |
Credit: | © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Admiralty Collection |