A starboard side view of the helicopter support ship Lofoten (1945) alongside the east wall in No. 3 Basin, Devonport Dockyard

A starboard near broadside view, taken from abaft the beam, of the helicopter support ship Lofoten (1945) alongside the east wall of No. 3 basin in Devonport Dockyard. She has a canvas cover over her funnel which has the number 2 painted on it. The 737 Squadron Westland Wessex HAS.1 helicopter XP110, coded 776/PO, is on the forward part of the flight deck. Everything aft of her funnel is out of the picture. The photographer is on the west wall of the basin looking across the stern of the ocean minesweeper Jewel (1944).

Object Details

ID: PM7782/16
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Wettern, Desmond Robert French
Vessels: LST 3027 (1945); Jewel (1944)
Date made: 24 June 1964
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection
Measurements: Film length: 35 mm x 190 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm
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