A USN Douglas Skyraider flying past the Royal Navy aircraft carrier Centaur (1947) while the ship is under way in the Atlantic west of Gibraltar.

Looking from starboard to port across the flight deck of 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, showing a United States Navy Douglas Skyhawk jet in flight. The Skyhawk has flown from either the USS Forrestal (1954) or the USS Enterprise (1960).

Object Details

ID: PM7595/1A
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