On board the type 81 general purpose frigate HMS Nubian (1960) alongside South Railway Jetty in Portsmouth Dockyard prior to commissioning on 9 October 1962. The photographer is in the quartermaster's lobby between 65 and 66½ stations on the port side of 1 deck looking forward from the doorway showing the quartermaster's desk, the duty board and a 21 inch diameter watertight scuttle on the right. The hatch leading down to 2 deck is open and a power panel and an automatic emergency lantern are above it. A vertical format negative.