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 conversion machinery and radar power room on the starboard side of 3 deck between 31 and 35½ stations. The photographer is looking aft showing a row of rectifiers on the left. A telephone and emergency lamp are mounted on a pillar and beyond them are two generators. To the right of centre is a rack of 12 volt batteries under a work bench. On the right are two generators with contactor units above them. Immediately above the nearer of the two generators is a change over switch panel. In the left foreground is tandem machine No. 1.
Object details
| ID: | N66569 |
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| 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 |