The Type 81 general purpose frigate Eskimo (1961) in No. 3 basin in Chatham Dockyard during her 1971-1974 modernisation. Looking aft from the bow on 1 deck.

On board the Type 81 general purpose frigate Eskimo (1961) in No. 3 basin in Chatham Dockyard during her 1971-1974 modernisation. The photographer is looking aft from the bow on 1 deck showing the breakwater, the forward 4.5 inch Mark 5 Mod. 2 gun, the enclosed bridge front, the MRS.3 director trained to starboard, the type 293Q radar cheese aerial and the foremast with the type 965 AKE1 bedstead aerial at the top trained off the port quarter. In the background berthed alongside the east wall of the basin is the Royal Fleet Auxiliary store carrier Bacchus (1962), pendant A404. A vertical format negative.

Object Details

ID: N67824
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Eskimo (1961); Bacchus (1962)
Date made: December 1973 - 3 January 1974
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London