On board the riverine gunboat Skull (1963) lying off the Tanjung Po lighthouse promontory, Kuching, Sarawak
On board the riverine gunboat Skull (1963) lying off the Tanjung Po lighthouse promontory, Kuching, Sarawak. The photographer is on the starboard side forward looking aft. This was during the Indonesian confrontation which ran from 20 January 1963 to 11 August 1966 and the lighthouse promontory was used as a lookout and communications post, manned constantly by three enlisted men of Naval Party Kilo. The negative has some staining at the top.
Object Details
| ID: | PM7747/6 |
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| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Skull (1963) |
| Date made: | October 1964 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Film length: 35 mm x 114 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm |