A distant stern view of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary fleet replenishment ship Resource (1966) and the aircraft carrier Eagle (1946) under way in the English Channel during the NATO exercise Peacekeeper.
A distant stern view of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary fleet replenishment ship Resource (1966) and the Royal Navy aircraft carrier Eagle (1946) under way in the English Channel during the NATO exercise Peacekeeper. They are steaming in close company with the Resource (1966) to port of the Eagle (1946). A Westland Wessex HU.5 helicopter is in flight with an underslung load approaching the Resource (1966) during a vertrep (vertical replenishment) serial. The photographer is on board the Royal Fleet Auxiliary fleet replenishment ship Olna (1965).
Object Details
| ID: | PM7905/22A |
|---|---|
| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Resource (1966); Eagle (1946) |
| 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 |