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 the torpedo maintenance room between 54 and 57 stations on the starboard side of 1 deck looking aft and to port showing open shelves for the stowage of ten boxes of breakaway bands and sixteen boxes of parachutes. Two trolleys are stowed in brackets against the open shelves. A vertical format negative.