In the hangar on board the Royal Navy aircraft carrier Centaur (1947) while the ship is under way in the Atlantic west of Gibraltar.
In the hangar 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 looking forward from the starboard side amidships showing a Fairey Gannet AEW.3 with wings folded on the right. The De Havilland Sea Vixen FAW.1 serial XJ580 (467/C) is on the left and beyond it is the Westland Whirlwind helicopter XN380 coded 338/C. The forward lift is down
Object Details
| ID: | PM7593/29A |
|---|---|
| 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: 35 mm x 38 mm |