A starboard quarter view of the fleet radar picket destroyer Corunna (1945) in Rosyth Dockyard.
A starboard quarter view of the fleet radar picket destroyer Corunna (1945) alongside the east wall of the main basin in Rosyth Dockyard, taken from across the quay. She is at the end of her conversion from a destroyer to a fleet radar picket. She is fitted with a quadruple GWS20 Seacat missile launcher aft and on her mainmast are a type 277Q height finding radar aerial and a pole topmast supporting interceopt arrays and a UHF D/F antenna. A double bedstead aerial for the Type 965 long range radar is at the top of the foremast.
Object Details
ID: | PM7500/17A |
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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 37 mm |