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.
A close view of the stern of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary replenishment tanker Tidesurge (1954) from on board the Royal Navy aircraft carrier Ark Royal (1950) while under way in the Arabian Sea during the CENTO exercise Midlink VI . The tanker is alongside to carry out a refuelling evolution and she is using her centre gantry to hold the fuel hoses. The photographer is near the island of the carrier looking aft and to starboard showing a signalman operating a ten inch signal projector.
Object Details
| ID: | PM7685/31 |
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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 227 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm |