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 machinery control room between 59 and 61½ stations on the centreline on 2 deck looking forward and to starboard from the doorway showing the four-sided machinery control console. The clock in the console is reading 3.58. A desk and telephone control box are on the right by the screen protecting the watertight scuttle leading down to 3 deck.