The Royal Navy Ton class patrol vessels Yarnton (1956) and Wasperton (1956) alongside the south wall in the basin of HMS Tamar on Hong Kong Island

A slightly distant port bow view, taken from fine off the bow, of the Royal Navy Ton class patrol vessel Yarnton (1956) berthed alongside the south wall in the basin of the Royal Navy Dockyard HMS Tamar on the north coast of Hong Kong Island. Her pendant number is P1096 and she is the leader of the 6th Patrol Craft Squadron. Astern of her and much obscured is the Ton class patrol vessel Wasperton (1956), the half-leader of the Squadron. The photographer is on the starboard side of the bridge of another Ton class patrol vessel looking aft as it manoeuvres to come alongside the wall. A vertical format negative.

Object Details

ID: PM7968/13
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Wettern, Desmond Robert French
Vessels: Yarnton (1956); Wasperton (1956)
Date made: 28 November 1972
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection
Measurements: Film length: 35 mm x 228 mm;Frame: 38 mm x 35 mm