A close starboard beam view of the hull of the Netherlands Navy aircraft carrier Karel Doorman (1943) just forward of the island during a NATO exercise in the North Atlantic off north-west Scotland
A close starboard broadside view of the hull just forward of the island of the Netherlands Navy aircraft carrier Karel Doorman (1943) under way in the North Atlantic off north-west Scotland during NATO exercise Flat Rock. Vice-Admiral Frank R Twiss was on board the Tiger commanding a fleet of 46 ships drawn from six NATO nations for exercise Flat Rock which took place in the waters off Cape Wrath and Loch Ewe between 16 and 24 October 1963 and he was about to undertake a jackstay transfer from the cruiser to the carrier.
Object Details
| ID: | PM7522/3A |
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| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Venerable (1943) |
| Date made: | 16-24 October 1963 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Film length: 35 mm x 40 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 40 mm |