In the engine room on board the United States Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) under way in mid Atlantic.

Two men standing by the main machinery control platform in the engine room on board the United States Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) while under way in mid Atlantic. 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: PM7799/3A
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