On board the Type 81 frigate Gurkha (1960) alongside the fitting out berth of John I Thornycroft & Co Ltd at Woolston, Southampton. The photographer is in the junior rates' dining hall between 50 and 56 stations on 2 deck looking forward and to starboard from 56 station on the port side showing tables and bench seats occupying the main space with curtains separating the port and starboard sides of the hall. A framed photograph of the Tribal class destroyer Gurkha (1937) and a clock reading 4.38 are against the forward bulkhead. A water cooler drinking fountain is in the right foreground. A plate dispenser is in front of the closed roller shutter of the servery. A tea making machine, a steel dresser, a double locker, a small arms locker, fuse panels and a loudspeaker are in the starboard forward corner of the hall.