On board the Royal Fleet Auxiliary fleet replenishment ship Olna (1965) while under way in the English Channel during the NATO exercise Peacekeeper.

On board the Royal Fleet Auxiliary fleet replenishment ship Olna (1965) while under way in the English Channel during the NATO exercise Peacekeeper. The photographer is on the starboard side of the forward superstructure looking aft and to port across the upper deck showing the refuelling gantries. The stern of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier Eagle (1946) is in the background and she is steaming in close company with the Olna (1965) to take on bunkers. The Royal Fleet Auxiliary air stores support ship Reliant (1953) is beyond the Eagle's stern. A Westland Wessex HAS.3 helicopter from 826 Naval Air Squadron attached to the Eagle (19460 is depositing an underslung load on the Eagle's flight deck during a vertrep (vertical replenishment) serial.

Object Details

ID: PM7909/3A
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Wettern, Desmond Robert French
Vessels: Eagle (1946); Olna (1965) 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