On board the Royal Navy coastal minehunter Bossington (1955) at anchor in the Suez Canal near Port Said. The photographer is on the starboard side of the sweep deck near the stern looking forward and up showing the Sweep deck and the bridge deck. Some of the crew are dressed in shorts or swimming trunks during 'hands to bathe'. She is engaged in Operation Rheostat One, the clearing of the Suez Canal of ordnance left over from the Egypt-Israel War. A vertical format image.