A distant starboard beam view of the Royal Navy light cruiser Tiger (1945) under way during a NATO exercise in the North Atlantic off north-west Scotland

A distant starboard broadside view of the Royal Navy light cruiser Tiger (1945) under way in the north Atlantic off north-west Scotland during NATO exercise Flat Rock. The Tiger (1945) was the flagship of Vice-Admiral F R Twiss who commanded a fleet of 46 ships drawn from six NATO nations for the exercise which took place in the waters off Cape Wrath and Loch Ewe between 16 and 24 October 1963. A Danish Bellona class corvette is abeam of the Tiger (1945) and an unidentified escort is beyond her port quarter.

Object Details

ID: PM7672/22A
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Wettern, Desmond Robert French
Vessels: Tiger (1945)
Date made: 16-24 October 1963
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection
Measurements: Film length: 35 mm x 190 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm