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 stabiliser compartment between 53 and 56 stations on 4 deck looking to starboard and slightly aft from the port side showing the port stabiliser piston and slide bar on the right and the inboard end of the starboard stabiliser unit on the left. An automatic emergency lantern is fixed to the pillar in the foreground. A Denny-Brown stabiliser instruction notice is standing on the chequer plate steel deck.