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 crew's mess between 41 and 42½ stations on the starboard side of 2 deck looking forward and to port showing a curtain drawn across the mess door on the left with a small table in the left foreground. An automatic emergency lantern is next to the doorway. Against the forward bulkhead are a notice board, a K.P. Lau calendar for January and February 1974, a coat hanging space, a cleaning gear locker, a mess locker, kit locker number 17 and an electric iron. A long chain made from can ring pulls is hanging from the notice board. A circular escape scuttle is in the deck.