On board the type 81 general purpose frigate HMS Tartar (1960) in Portsmouth Dockyard between November 1973 and April 1974 during a refit. The photographer is in the junior rates mess between 67 and 73 stations on 3 deck looking to starboard from 71½ station on the centreline showing a recreation space with a settee bench against the aft and screen bulkheads and above the bench in the corner are two shelves with tea and coffee pots, crockery and cutlery racks, tea, cocoa, evaporated milk, sugar, Marvel dried milk powder and a spirograph drawing on them. A folding table is in the foreground. Kit lockers and a bookshelf are on the left.