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 fore 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 aft of her aft gantry is 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 aft superstructure during a refuelling using the tanker's centre gantry. One of the Ark Royal's radio aerial spreader masts is in the foreground.
Object Details
| ID: | PM7681/8 |
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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 |