The Type 12 frigate HMS Berwick (1959). In the junior rates' mess between 27 and 31 stations on 3 deck.

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 aft from 28 station on the centreline showing kit lockers and the watertight hatch leading down to 4 deck on the left. A triple tier bunk unit and kit lockers are on the right and a stack of tubular steel chairs are in the right foreground. Two kit lockers, a transformer, a fuse panel, an automatic emergency lantern and a Nu-Swift fire extinguisher are against the aft bulkhead.

Object Details

ID: N67040
Collection: Historic Photographs
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Berwick (1959)
Date made: February - 12 March 1971
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Admiralty Collection
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