Officers playing cards on board the United States Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) under way in mid Atlantic.
Four officers seated at a table playing cards on board the United States Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) while under way in mid Atlantic. They are possibly in the wardroom. There is slight image movement. 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: | PM7799/2A |
|---|---|
| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | 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 |
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