The Royal Navy light cruiser Belfast (1938) under way in Portsmouth Harbour, bound out from Middle Slip Jetty, Portsmouth Dockyard.
A distant port quarter view, taken from well abaft the beam, of the Royal Navy light cruiser Belfast (1938) under way in Portsmouth Harbour, bound out from Middle Slip Jetty, Portsmouth Dockyard. The photographer is on Middle Slip Jetty. The ship's pendant number is C35, the Royal Naval Reserve crew is mustered at 'Hands for leaving harbour' stations and the ship's band is on the quarterdeck. She is wearing the flag of the Admiral Commanding Reserves, Rear Admiral Hugh Martell.
Object Details
| ID: | PM7664/37A |
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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 188 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 36 mm |