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 machinery control room between 59 and 61½ stations on the centreline of 2 deck looking to starboard and aft showing the open scuttle leading down to the engine room in the right foreground with the logbook desk, the telephone switchboard, four telephones and a main broadcast microphone above it. On the left are a rudder indicator, a fire detection system panel, a key cabinet, a torque indicator and two filters.