The Type 12 frigate HMS Berwick (1959). In the engineer's office between 47 and 49 stations on the port side of 2 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 engineer's office between 47 and 49 stations on the port side of 2 deck looking aft and to port showing a desk with drawers under it against the ship's side. A junior rate's cap, ledgers, papers, a master log, a box of job cards and a six month calendar are on the desk. Above the desk are a ledger rack and a cupboard and to the side is a four drawer filing cabinet with an Olivetti Linea 88 typewriter on top of it. A Type IV 12-way telephone control box, a microphone, two armament broadcast loudspeakers, a main armament broadcast push button, a junction box, an electric fire, an inclinometer and a telephone are against the starboard bulkhead.

Object Details

ID: N67196
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