The Type 12 frigate HMS Lowestoft (1960). In the boatswain's, lamp and paint store between 2½ and 6 stations on 2 deck.
On board the Type 12 frigate HMS Lowestoft (1960) alongside the fitting out berth of Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd at Linthouse, Glasgow. The photographer is in the boatswain's, lamp and paint store between 2½ and 6 stations on 2 deck looking to port and aft from the starboard forward corner. A work bench fitted with a vice is against the port side of the hull and cringle bars are above it. A shelving rack holding drums of bituminous solution is in the port aft corner. In the foreground is the port chain pipe from 1 deck to the cable locker on 3 deck.
Object details
| ID: | N64781 |
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| Collection: | Historic Photographs |
| Type: | Sheet film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | W. Ralston & Co |
| Vessels: | Lowestoft (1960) |
| Date made: | 1 September 1961 - 15 September 1961 |
| Credit: | © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Admiralty Collection |