A starboard beam view of the sterns 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 starboard beam view of the sterns 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 on the flight deck of the Resource (1966) following a vertrep (vertical replenishment) serial with the air stores support ship Reliant (1953). The photographer is on board the Royal Fleet Auxiliary fleet replenishment ship Olna (1965).
Object Details
| ID: | PM7906/26A |
|---|---|
| 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 152 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm |