The Royal Fleet Auxiliary replenishment tanker Tidesurge (1954) under way in the Arabian Sea during CENTO exercise Midlink VI.

A close port side view of the midships part of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary replenishment tanker Tidesurge (1954) under way in the Arabian Sea during the CENTO exercise Midlink VI. Her pendant number is A98. Everything forward of her bridge and aft of the funnel are out of the picture. The photographer is on board the Royal Navy aircraft carrier Ark Royal (1950) looking to starboard and forward from abreast the tanker's stern during a refuelling using the tanker's centre gantry.

Object Details

ID: PM7681/6
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Wettern, Desmond Robert French
Vessels: Tiderange (1954); Ark Royal (1950)
Date made: 14-23 November 1963
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection
Measurements: Film length: 35 mm x 228 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm