On board the Royal Navy coastal minesweeper Curzon (1954) during a traffic route patrol in the English Channel. The photographer is on the starboard side of the open bridge abreast the mast looking aft and to port showing the funnel and the port derrick post. In the distance is a small, three masted, flush decked motor vessel with an S & B logo on its funnel and this is believed to be the German flagged motor coaster Heinrich S (1964). She is seen from well abaft her starboard beam.