A starboard side detail of the after part of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Saratoga (1955) while refuelling the guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) under way in mid Atlantic.

A starboard side view of the after part of the United States Navy aircraft carrier Saratoga (1955) taken from on board the United States Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) during a replenishment serial while under way in mid Atlantic. The photographer is on the port side of 01 deck of the destroyer looking aft and to port. Goofers are on the flight and hangar decks of the carrier. 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 and two men are in the foreground looking at the carrier.

Object Details

ID: PM7797/25A
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Wettern, Desmond Robert French
Vessels: Saratoga (1955); Claude V Ricketts (1960)
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