The United States Navy aircraft carrier Saratoga (1955) from on board the guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) under way in mid Atlantic.
On board the United States Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) during a replenishment serial with the aircraft carrier Saratoga (1955) while under way in mid Atlantic. The photographer is on 1 deck of the destroyer amidships looking forward and to port showing the forward part of the hull of the carrier. The forward elevator is at hangar deck level. In the foreground the crewmen of the destroyer are securing the fuel hose. They are wearing standard working rig with 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: | PM7797/29A |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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