Yarmouth (1959) on board views on completion
A half plate sheet film negative. On board 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. In the gunbay on 2 deck between 20½ and 25½ stations. The photographer is looking forward and to port from the aft end of the bay showing bays 10, 11 and 12. Bay 12 contains a rectifier unit and an emergency lamp is on the girder between bays 11 and 12. A wooden control box is on the girder between bays 8 and 9 in the left foreground. The shell and cartridge troughs encircle the gun turret revolving platform and above the shell trough is a load indicator box for general service pump motor. A pressure gauge made by C.P. Stewart Ltd is on the right and a voice pipe is at the top of the picture.
Object details
| ID: | N66443 |
|---|---|
| Collection: | Historic Photographs |
| Type: | Sheet 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 |