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 in the operations room between 42 and 45½ stations on 1 deck looking forward from the starboard side at 45 station showing a teleprinter, a fuse panel, a communications drawer unit with a hinged centre flap, a sonar type 162 recorder unit, a sonar type 162 transmitter/receiver unit, a junction box and a number of telephone control and switch boxes and telephones against the ship's side. A desk with four telephones and three microphones above it is against the forward bulkhead and a visual display unit is on the left A vertical format negative.