A distant starboard side view of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary air stores support ship Reliant (1953) under way in the English Channel during the NATO exercise Peacekeeper.
A distant starboard near broadside view, taken from just abaft the beam, of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary air stores support ship Reliant (1953) under way in the English Channel during the NATO exercise Peacekeeper. Her pendant number is A84 and a Westland Wessex HU.5 helicopter is in flight with an underslung load moving away from her stern during a vertrep (vertical replenishment) serial. The photographer is on board the Royal Fleet Auxiliary fleet replenishment ship Olna (1965).
Object Details
| ID: | PM7905/21A |
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| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Reliant (1953) |
| Date made: | 24 September 1969 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Film length: 35 mm x 228 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm |