A starboard bow view of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier Eagle (1946) at moorings in Plymouth Sound at the end of the NATO exercise Peacekeeper.
A starboard bow view of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier Eagle (1946) moored to C buoy in Plymouth Sound at the end of the NATO exercise Peacekeeper. The photographer is on board a motor launch heading east towards the ship. The carrier has a Director class paddle tug alongside her starboard side and she has Fairey Gannet, De Havilland Sea Vixen and Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer aircraft on her flight deck forward. Staddon Heights are in the background.
Object Details
| ID: | PM7913/24A |
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| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | 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 |