A port beam view of the Fleet Air Arm Westland Wasp HAS.1 helicopter XV635 (431) from the Royal Navy frigate Charybdis (1968) in flight off the Firth of Forth during exercise Sally Forth.
A port beam view of the Fleet Air Arm Westland Wasp HAS.1 helicopter XV635 (431) from the Royal Navy frigate Charybdis (1968) in flight during exercise Sally Forth in the North Sea off the Firth of Forth. Her code is 431 and her tail cone is out of the picture. There is some image movement. The photographer is on board the guided missile destroyer Bristol (1969) and the heads of a naval rating and a civilian are in the foreground.
Object Details
| ID: | PM8004/17 |
|---|---|
| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Charybdis (1968); Bristol (1969) |
| 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 |