The United States Navy aircraft carrier Saratoga (1955) from on board the guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) under way in mid Atlantic.

A starboard midship detail in way of the forward elevator of the United States Navy aircraft carrier Saratoga (1955) while under way in mid Atlantic. The photographer is on board the guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) looking to port and slightly forward from the port side of 1 deck amidships showing the fuel hose being hauled back aboard the Saratoga (1955). The hangar doors on both sides of the carrier are open. 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: PM7798/35
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Wettern, Desmond Robert French
Vessels: Saratoga (1955)
Date made: June 1965
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection
Measurements: Film length: 35 mm x 190 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm