Alongside the Royal Navy type 12 frigate Plymouth (1959) at Portland, Dorset

Alongside the Royal Navy type 12 general purpose frigate Plymouth (1959) while in Portland harbour. The photographer is in a boat close alongside looking forward, to starboard and up from the port side abreast the helicopter deck showing the hangar with the quadruple GWS 20 Seacat missile launcher on its roof, and the tops of the fore and main masts.

Object Details

ID: PM7896/8
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Wettern, Desmond Robert French
Vessels: Plymouth (1959)
Date made: July 1969
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection
Measurements: Film length: 35 mm x 228 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm