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 sick bay between 42½ and 44 stations on the starboard side of 2 deck looking aft and to port from the starboard side showing the operating table in the foreground. Two hanging cots are behind a curtain on the port side of the sick bay. the surgeon's desk with action trays and an air conditioning unit above it, a tubular steel chair, a bookcase and an automatic emergency lantern are against the aft bulkhead. The ship's crest of the frigate Falmouth is fixed to the front of the air conditioning unit. A vertical format negative.