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 forward 4.5 inch handing room and gun crew's shelter between 37 and 41 stations on 1 deck looking to starboard from the port side showing the two ammunition hoists in the foreground with a hatch down to 2 deck and the door to the forecastle beyond them. Against the bulkhead of No. 1 amplifier compartment are an ammunition strongback, a telephone, coat hooks, cleaning rods and a maintenance bench with a Record 83 vice on it. A rag locker and racks for shell ejectors are against the starboard bulkhead.