The Royal Fleet Auxiliary replenishment tanker Tidesurge (1954) from on board the Royal Navy aircraft carrier Ark Royal (1950) under way in the Arabian Sea during CENTO exercise Midlink VI.
The photographer is on board the Royal Navy aircraft carrier Ark Royal (1950) while under way in the Arabian Sea during the CENTO exercise Midlink VI, refuelling from the Royal Fleet Auxiliary replenishment tanker Tidesurge (1954). He is looking aft and to starboard showing the stern of the tanker which is using her centre gantry to carry out the refuelling evolution. A Westland Wessex helicopter is in flight in the distance.
Object Details
| ID: | PM7684/24 |
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| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Ark Royal (1950); Tiderange (1954) |
| Date made: | 14-23 November 1963 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Film length: 35 mm x 152 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm |