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) of the 8th Frigate Squadron under way off Barbados during exercises involving the 7th Frigate Squadron (South Atlantic) and 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 breakwater. The barrel of the 4.5 inch gun dominates the photograph. In the distance steaming parallel to the Tartar (1960) is the Royal Navy type 41 frigate Lynx (1955) of the 7th Frigate Squadron, seen from just abaft her starboard beam. Her pendant number is F27.
Object Details
| ID: | PM7830/34A |
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| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Lynx (1955); Tartar (1960) |
| Date made: | May - June 1966 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Film length: 35 mm x 76 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm |