The Royal Fleet Auxiliary fleet replenishment ship Resource (1966) from on board the Royal Navy commando carrier Bulwark (1948) in the Norwegian Sea off the northern coast of Norway during the NATO exercise Polar Express.

A starboard broadside view of the after part of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary fleet replenishment ship Resource (1966) seen from on board the Royal Navy commando carrier Bulwark (1948) under way in the Norwegian Sea off the northern coast of Norway during the NATO exercise Polar Express. The photographer is on the port side of the carrier's island looking across the flight deck showing the Westland Wessex HU5 helicopter XT484 coded 469/RS lifting a pallet of stores from the flight deck of the Resource (1966). In the foreground on the carrier's deck is the Westland Wessex HU5 helicopter XT461, coded F/B of 845 Squadron.

Object Details

ID: PM7856/12A
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Wettern, Desmond Robert French
Vessels: Bulwark (1948); Resource (1966)
Date made: June 1968
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection
Measurements: Film length: 35 mm x 128 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm