The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Saratoga (1955) from on board the U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) in mid Atlantic.
A close view of the starboard side of the United States Navy aircraft carrier Saratoga (1955) under way in mid Atlantic, looking forward from just abaft the side elevator. The photographer is on board the United States Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) looking forward from the port side of the deck showing the back of an officer in thre foreground. The crew of the destroyer consisted of 10 officers and 164 crew from the US Navy with the rest of the complement being from West Germany, Italy, Greece, United Kingdom, Netherlands and Turkey as a mixed manning experiment. The ships are about to engage in a replenishment serial.
Object Details
| ID: | PM7794/12A |
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| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Claude V Ricketts (1960); Saratoga (1955) |
| Date made: | June 1965 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Film length: 35 mm x 228 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm |