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 forward welldeck and aft of the funnel are out of the picture. The photographer is on the flight deck of 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: | PM7681/7 |
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| 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 |