A close starboard side view of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier Eagle (1946) under way in the English Channel during the NATO exercise Peacekeeper.

A close starboard side view of the after part of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier Eagle (1946) under way in the English Channel during the NATO exercise Peacekeeper. Only the area from the aft end of the island superstructure to the stern 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 forward superstructure showing the fuel hoses in position. The Royal Fleet Auxiliary air stores support ship Reliant (1953) is beyond the Eagle's stern. A Westland Wessex HAS.3 helicopter from Naval Air Squadron 826 attached to the Eagle is approaching the carrier's flight deck to deposit an underslung load during a vertrep (vertical replenishment) serial.

Object Details

ID: PM7909/5A
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