On board the Type 81 general purpose frigate Eskimo (1961) alongside the fitting out berth of J Samuel White & Co Ltd at West Cowes, Isle of Wight. The photographer is looking forward and to starboard from the port side of the MRS.3 director platform at 45 station on 02 deck showing the gun direction officer's binocular sight Mk. I, serial No. 110, on a raised platform. The two starboard action look-out positions are on the right. Against the front screen are an azimuth repeater, the local air plot, sight selection switches, a telephone key box, telephones, microphones and loudspeakers. In the left background is the passenger/vehicle ferry Osborne Castle (1962) on the Southampton to Cowes service.