On board the ocean weather ship Weather Reporter (1944) while on station in the North Atlantic.

On board the ocean weather ship Weather Reporter (1944) on station in the North Atlantic. The photographer is in the balloon hangar looking aft showing a large following sea breaking over the transom and flooding the quarterdeck and the inside of the hangar. Gas cylinders are stored in racks along the port side of the hangar.

Object Details

ID: PM7482/12
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Wettern, Desmond Robert French
Vessels: Oakham Castle (1944)
Date made: February-March 1962
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection
Measurements: Film length: 35 mm x 190 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 37 mm