On board the type 81 general purpose frigate HMS Ashanti (1959) alongside the fitting out berth at the Yarrow & Co Ltd shipyard at Scotstoun, Glasgow. The photographer is in the passageway between 45 and 50 stations on the port side of 2 deck looking forward from 49 station showing the door to the officers' galley, a washing up cabinet and the arched and curtained openings to the officers' cooks and stewards mess and the seamen's mess on the left. The junior rates' servery is on the right. The watertight doors at 45, 41 and 32 stations are open. A vertical format negative.