On board the type 81 general purpose frigate HMS Ashanti (1959) alongside North Corner Jetty in Portsmouth Dockyard during her September 1968 to April 1970 refit. The photographer is in the machinery control room between 59 and 61 stations on the centreline of 2 deck looking aft showing two telephone handsets and a telephone switchboard, a main broadcast loudspeaker, the log desk, a telephone junction box and a clinometer. A vertical format negative.