Royal Navy coastal minesweepers in line ahead in Dutch coastal waters.
A distant view of Royal Navy coastal minesweepers steaming in line ahead in the North Sea off the Dutch coast during the joint RN and RNR live minesweeping exercise Cableway. The photographer is looking aft from the port side of the bridge of the Royal Naval Reserve manned sweeper Thames (1953) of the 10th Mine Counter Measures Squadron. The port derrick post and the sweep deck of the Thames (1953) are in the foreground.
Object Details
| ID: | PM7670/13 |
|---|---|
| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Buttington (1953) |
| Date made: | 12-14 July 1963 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Film length: 35 mm x 190 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm |