On board the Type 12 general purpose frigate Plymouth (1959) alongside the south side of number 3 basin in Chatham Dockyard at the end of a modernization which commenced in August 1966. The ship is berthed starboard side to the quay. The photographer is in the passageway at 25 station on the starboard side of 2 deck looking aft and to port showing the watertight door to the gun bay in the right foreground. Two steel cupboards, two Nu-Swift fire extinguishers, three fire hose baskets, a large emergency cable stowage bracket and a CO² fire extinguisher are against the bulkhead. Oil refuelling hoses are stowed under the deckhead.