The Type 12 frigate HMS Berwick (1959). On the flat outside the shipwright's workshop between 47 and 48¾ stations on the starboard side of 01 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 on the flat outside the shipwright's workshop between 47 and 48¾ stations on the starboard side of 01 deck looking forward and to port showing a fire main and hose basket by the forward guardrail. Large baulks of timber and a one gallon can of disinfectant fluid are on deck on the left. An open boiler room ventilation trunk is behind a vertical steel ladder. The whaler oar and timber stowage rack is beyond the guard rail.

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ID:	N67442
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

The Type 12 frigate HMS Berwick (1959). On the flat outside the shipwright's workshop between 47 and 48¾ stations on the starboard side of 01 deck.

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