A slightly distant port side view of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier Ark Royal (1950) under way off the Firth of Forth during exercise Sally Forth.
A slightly distant port side view, taken from well ahead of the bow, of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier Ark Royal (1950) under way during exercise Sally Forth in the North Sea off the Firth of Forth. She has Blackburn Buccaneer S2s of 809 squadron and McDonnell Douglas F4K Phantoms of 892 Squadron on deck and her plane guard Westland Wessex HAS.1 helicopter XS875 code 47 is in flight off the port quarter. The photographer is on board the guided missile destroyer Bristol (1969).
Object Details
| ID: | PM8009/3A |
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| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Bristol (1969); Ark Royal (1950) |
| 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 |