On board the Royal Navy coastal minelayer Plover (1937) under way in Stokes Bay, The Solent
On board the coastal minelayer Plover (1937) under way during a minelaying exercise in Stokes Bay, The Solent. The photographer is on the starboard side of the minelaying deck looking forward showing exercise ground mines on the inboard rails and sand filled dummy moored mines on sinkers on the outboard rails. The ground mines are numbered 17 and 19 and printed on them is '44 day clock (A)WBNS 5.62'. A vertical format negative.
Object Details
| ID: | PM7546/27A |
|---|---|
| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Plover (1937) |
| Date made: | June 1962 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Film length: 35 mm x 228 mm;Frame: 38 mm x 35 mm |