A distant stern view of the Royal Navy frigate Charybdis (1968) under way off the Firth of Forth during exercise Sally Forth.
A distant stern view of the Royal Navy frigate Charybdis (1968) under way during exercise Sally Forth in the North Sea off the Firth of Forth. Her pendant number is F75 and she is the leader of the 1st Frigate Squadron. She has fired her Limbo mortar ahead and to port and the subsiding splash of the bomb can be seen in the left background. She has a VDS well in her stern and is heading away from the photographer, who is on board the guided missile destroyer Bristol (1969).
Object Details
| ID: | PM8006/25 |
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| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Bristol (1969); Charybdis (1968) |
| 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 |