A close-up of the sterns of the U.S. Navy store ship Altair (1944) AKS 32 and the attack transport Rockbridge (1944) APA 228 under way in the Mediterranean during the 6th Fleet exercise Steel Link 1.
A close-up of the port side of the sterns of the United States Navy store ship Altair (1944) AKS 32 and the attack transport Rockbridge (1944) APA 228 under way in the Mediterranean during the 6th Fleet exercise Steel Link 1. The photographer is on board the attack transport Monrovia (1942) looking to starboard and aft showing very little of the Altair (1944) except for her aft cargo mast and the Sikorsky HUS-1 utility helicopter serial 145725 of HU-4 Squadron hovering above her helicopter deck. The attack transport Rockbridge (1944) APA 228 is to starboard of the Altair (1944).
Object Details
| ID: | PM7710/24 |
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| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Monrovia (1942); Aberdeen Victory (1944) Rockbridge (1944) |
| Date made: | 14 August 1964 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Film length: 35 mm x 188 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 37 mm |