On board the Royal Navy aircraft carrier Centaur (1947) while the ship is under way in the Atlantic west of Gibraltar.
On board the Royal Navy aircraft carrier Centaur (1947) while the ship is under way in the Atlantic, west of Gibraltar, during the NATO exercise Riptide III. The photographer is on the port side in the forward 40mm bofors gun platform looking aft showing the tail rotor of a Westland Whirlwind HAS.7 helicopter which is parked with rotor blades folded at the forward end of the angled flight deck. The horizon is not level. A vertical format negative.
Object Details
| ID: | PM7593/28A |
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| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Centaur (1947) |
| Date made: | 10-15 August 1962 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Film length: 35 mm x 190 mm;Frame: 38 mm x 35 mm |