On board the Royal Navy riverine gunboat Skull (1963) alongside the oiling jetty at Kuching, Sarawak. The photographer is in the crew accommodation cabin amidships showing two of the crew repairing a piece of electrical equipment, possibly a radio, on the table while a third crew member is at the cooking range. Apart from the bunks and the cooking stove all other furnishings had to be acquired by the crew, leading to the Resident Naval Officer at Kuching describing his gunboat crews as "The biggest bunch of scroungers since the wild dogs of Babylon". This was during the Indonesian confrontation which ran from 20 January 1963 to 11 August 1966.