A riverbank scene from on board the Royal Navy riverine gunboat Skull (1963) near Kuching, Sarawak

A riverbank scene from on board the Royal Navy riverine gunboat Skull (1963) near Kuching, Sarawak. A local motor coaster is under way on the left. The riverbank is frequently muddy and fringed with thick mangrove swamps. This was during the Indonesian confrontation which ran from 20 January 1963 to 11 August 1966.

Object Details

ID: PM7762/28
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Wettern, Desmond Robert French
Date made: October 1964
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection
Measurements: Film length: 35 mm x 76 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm