On board the Type 12 frigate HMS Berwick (1959) alongside the south wall in No.3 basin at Chatham Dockyard, near the end of her modernization which commenced 4 December 1967 and completed 4 June 1971. The photographer is in the junior rates' mess between 27 and 31 stations on 3 deck looking forward from 30 station on the starboard side showing a large locker, five boot lockers and suitcase racks against the ship's side. An electric fire is fixed to the pillar in the left foreground. Four kit lockers, four boot lockers and a Thermotank air conditioning unit are against the forward bulkhead.