A group of Royal Navy riverine gunboats alongside the jetty at their base at Kuching, Sarawak. The photographer is on the jetty looking down showing in the foreground, nearest the jetty, a converted landing craft with the accommodation cabin amidships and a canopy over the wheel aft. Outboard of the former landing craft is a converted naval stores tender. Astern of these two boats are another two converted naval stores tenders the inboard one being NST 28. There were 12 of these gunboats, the majority being converted landing craft or naval stores tenders from Singapore Navy Yard, and some of the names given were Andy Cap, Bartender, Dunga, Fireball, Fish Head, Skull and The Saint. They were manned by members of Naval Party Kilo. This was during the Indonesian confrontation which ran from 20 January 1963 to 11 August 1966.