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 GWS 20 quadruple Seacat missile launcher on its roof, the motor cutter and the tops of the fore and main masts. An unidentified man, possibly Desmond Wettern, is standing in the bow of the boat.
Object Details
ID: | PM7896/11 |
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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 |