The starboard quarter of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier Eagle (1946) and a 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 close view of the starboard quarter of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier Eagle (1946) under way in the English Channel during the NATO exercise Peacekeeper. Very little of the ship is in the picture. She is steaming in close company with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary fleet replenishment ship Olna (1965) to take on bunkers and the photographer is on board the Olna (1965) looking to port and aft from the aft superstructure. In the distance and seen from ahead of her starboard beam is the Royal Fleet Auxiliary air stores support ship Reliant (1953) and her pendant number is A84. In flight is the Westland Wessex HU.5 helicopter XT484, coded 469/RS, from the Royal Fleet Auxiliary fleet replenishment ship Resource (1966). A vertical format negative.
Object Details
| ID: | PM7907/29A |
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| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Eagle (1946); Reliant (1953) |
| Date made: | 24 September 1969 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Film length: 35 mm x 228 mm;Frame: 38 mm x 35 mm |