The United States Navy hydrofoil patrol gunboat Tucumcari (1967) under way in the Solent.

A distant starboard bow view of the United States Navy hydrofoil patrol gunboat Tucumcari (1967) under way in the Solent. She is just beginning to rise onto her foils and her hull number is PGH2. On the right and seen from only just abaft her starboard beam is the tank landing ship Wood County (1957), hull number LST 1178. The Tucumcari (1967) is on a round-Europe demonstration deployment supported by the Wood County (1957) which lasted from 5 April 1971 when they arrived at Copenhagen to 1 October 1971 when they sailed from the Mediterranean.

Object Details

ID: PM7940/11A
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Wettern, Desmond Robert French
Vessels: Tucumcari (1967); Wood County (1957)
Date made: 22 June 1971
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection
Measurements: Film length: 35 mm x 152 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm
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