The Royal Navy light cruiser Belfast (1938) leaving Middle Slip Jetty in Portsmouth Dockyard, bound out.
A close view of the port side of the fore part of the Royal Navy light cruiser Belfast (1938) leaving Middle Slip Jetty in Portsmouth Dockyard, bound out. The photographer is on the jetty abreast the aft superstructure looking to starboard and forward showing the ship from the mainmast forward. Her pendant number is C35, the Royal Naval Reserve crew is mustered at 'Hands for leaving harbour' stations and the ship is wearing the flag of the Admiral Commanding Reserves, Rear Admiral Hugh Martell. Everything aft of the mainmast is out of the picture.
Object Details
| ID: | PM7663/32A |
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| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Belfast (1938) |
| Date made: | 10 August 1963 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Film length: 35 mm x 190 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm |