On board the U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) replenishing from the aircraft carrier Saratoga (1955) while under way in mid Atlantic.
On board the United States Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) replenishing from the aircraft carrier Saratoga (1955) while under way in mid Atlantic. The photographer is on the starboard side of 01 deck by the side of the bridge looking forward showing a line of seamen from six nations hauling in a fuel line from the carrier. The men are in normal working gear but they are all wearing lifejackets. 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.
Object Details
| ID: | PM7796/20A |
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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 |