Ships of Exercise Riptide III from on board the Royal Navy type 12 frigate Falmouth (1959) which is under way in the Atlantic west of Gibraltar.
Looking to the horizon 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, showing some of the ships participating in the exercise. On the extreme left is a Royal Navy fleet radar picket destroyer, either the Aisne (1945) or the Corunna (1945). Nothing of the Falmouth is in the photograph. The horizon is not level.
Object Details
| ID: | PM7601/33A |
|---|---|
| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| 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 |