Yarmouth (1959) on board views on completion

A 2¼ square roll film negative. A deck view of the Type 12 frigate Yarmouth (1959) alongside the south-east corner of the fitting out basin in John Brown & Co Ltd's shipyard at Clydebank. The photographer is looking forward and slightly to starboard from inside the Limbo mortar well on 2 deck. He is to port of the number 2 mortar looking at the number 1 Limbo Mark 10 mortar which has a canvas cover over the main frame and canvas caps over the tops of the barrels. The fixed deck mounted torpedo tubes on the starboard side of 1 deck are in the background.

Object details

ID: N66358
Collection: Historic Photographs
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Portsmouth Dockyard Photographic Unit; John Brown & Company Ltd
Vessels: Yarmouth (1959)
Date made: 1960-03
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London