On board the type 81 general purpose frigate HMS Nubian (1960) alongside the South Arm in Rosyth Dockyard prior to 25 March 1973. The photographer is in the operations room between 42 and 45½ stations on 1 deck looking forward and to starboard from 44 station on the starboard side showing a cupboard with a sonar type 162 recorder above it, a dial telephone, an interphone connection box and a loudspeaker control unit against the ship's side. A communications desk equipped with a morse key, a telephone handset, two microphones, a gun range unit, an MRS 3 range unit, a stateboard, a loudspeaker, a visual display unit, a radar selector box and a general information stateboard is against the forward bulkhead. A clock is reading 11.09.