The Royal Navy type 41 frigate Lynx (1955) from on board the Royal Navy Type 81 frigate Tartar (1960) off Barbados in the West Indies.
On board the Royal Navy Type 81 general purpose frigate Tartar (1960) while at sea off Barbados during exercises involving the 7th and 8th Frigate Squadrons. The Tartar is a unit of the 8th Frigate Squadron (West Indies). The photographer is on the starboard side of the forecastle on 1 deck looking to port from just abaft the 4.5 inch gun showing the rear of the gun mount. The Royal Navy type 41 frigate Lynx (1955) of the 7th Frigate Squadron (South Atlantic) is steaming parallel to the Tartar (1960) and is seen from off her starboard broadside. Her pendant number is F27.
Object Details
| ID: | PM7829/32A |
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| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Tartar (1960); Lynx (1955) |
| Date made: | May - June 1966 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Film length: 35 mm x 228 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm |