A port very near broadside view of the Royal Navy Ton class coastal minesweeper Kedleston (1953) stopped off the Firth of Forth during exercise Sally Forth.
A port very near broadside view of the Royal Navy Ton class minesweeper Kedleston (1953) of the Fishery Protection Squadron stopped during exercise Sally Forth in the North Sea off the Firth of Forth. Her pendant number is M1153 and she has the Fishery Protection Squadron pennant logo on her funnel. She has been converted to a minehunter and is launching her Gemini boat with a mine clearance diver aboard. The photographer is on board the guided missile destroyer Bristol (1969).
Object Details
| ID: | PM8003/11 |
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| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Bristol (1969); Kedleston (1953) |
| Date made: | 24 July 1973 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Film length: 35 mm x 228 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm |