A fleet radar picket destroyer from on board the Royal Navy type 12 frigate Falmouth (1959) which is under way in the Atlantic west of Gibraltar.
A distant starboard side view of a Royal Navy fleet radar picket destroyer from on board the Royal Navy type 12 frigate Falmouth (1959) under way in the Atlantic, west of Gibraltar, during the NATO exercise Riptide III. The destroyer is either the Aisne (1945) or the Corunna (1945), both of which were participants in the exercise. The photographer is on the port side of the Falmouth (1959) abreast the mast showing the 20 inch signalling projector in the foreground.
Object Details
| ID: | PM7601/31A |
|---|---|
| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Falmouth (1959) |
| Date made: | 10-15 August 1962 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Film length: 35 mm x 152 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm |