A starboard bow view of the fleet radar picket destroyer Corunna (1945) in Rosyth Dockyard.
A starboard bow view, taken from across the quay, of the fleet radar picket destroyer Corunna (1945) alongside the north wall of the main basin in Rosyth Dockyard. Her pendant number is D97 and she is at the end of her conversion from a destroyer to a fleet radar picket. She is fitted with a double bedstead aerial for the Type 965 long range radar and below it are the aerials for the type 293Q search radar and the type 978 navigational radar. The mark 37 gun director above the bridge is fitted with the eyes of the type 275 radar.
Object Details
ID: | PM7500/15A |
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Type: | Roll film negative |
Display location: | Not on display |
Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
Vessels: | Corunna (1945) |
Date made: | January - February 1962 |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
Measurements: | Film length: 35 mm x 225 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm |