A Royal Navy 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 very distant port side view, taken from abaft the beam, of a Royal Navy fleet radar picket destroyer, either the Aisne (1945) or the Corunna (1945), crossing astern of the Royal Navy type 12 frigate Falmouth (1959) which is under way in the Atlantic, west of Gibraltar, during the NATO exercise Riptide III. The photographer is on the port side of the Falmouth abreast the mast looking aft. The horizon is not level.
Object Details
| ID: | PM7602/35A |
|---|---|
| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Falmouth (1959); Aisne (1945) Corunna (1945) |
| Date made: | 10-15 August 1962 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Film length: 35 mm x 116 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm |