Looking aft from the bow on board the U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) in mid Atlantic.
On board the United States Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) while under way in mid Atlantic. The photographer is standing at the bow at 1 deck level looking aft showing the forward 5 inch dual purpose gun, the superstructure and the mast. The tip of the aerial at the masthead is just out of the picture. 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. A vertical format negative.
Object Details
| ID: | PM7802/25A |
|---|---|
| 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: 38 mm x 35 mm |