No. 2 [Upper Gallery] Deck, location 2MZ2. Looking out towards the opening in the shell. To the immediate right is an empty cable reel, and in the left foreground a pair of mooring bollards with a line secured to one of them. The doorway to the right leads towards the adjacent mess spaces.

This is part of a series of photographs taken during the final stages of HMS Ark Royal's last major refit which was completed in 1970. The location references are derived from the deck plans in the latest edition of the ship's NBCD book.