A couple of screenshots from this DVD, again well worth buying if you can find one.
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View from astern facing forward. Of interest in the foreground is the circular catapult base. Unique to Royal Sovereign among the 'R' Class as far as I am aware. Plus the near black and white appearance to the camouflage colours. They appear to be either black and white or else very dark and very light grey? It was an unofficial camouflage scheme so the colours may have been altered at various times too?
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View from the bridge facing forward. Gives a good indication of the colour of the deck planking. A shame there is no date so we do not know if she was fresh from overhaul or if the deck had been recently treated or cleaned when the film was taken? Of interest too is that the anchor cables are stowed away entirely with the anchors held in place by the Blake Slips. They must have been expecting heavy seas, there was doubtless no shortage of those while on convoy escort duty.