A Blackburn Buccaneer S2 jet from 809 Naval Air Squadron dropping bombs astern of the guided missile destroyer Bristol (1969) off the Firth of Forth during exercise Sally Forth.
On board the Royal Navy guided missile destroyer Bristol (1969) looking aft over the quarterdeck from the starboard side abreast the Sea Dart launcher showing a large number of civil and military dignitaries watching a low flying Blackburn Buccaneer S2 jet aircraft dropping bombs on a towed target astern of the ship during exercise Sally Forth in the North Sea off the Firth of Forth. The aircraft is from 809 Naval Air Squadron flying from the aircraft carrier Ark Royal (1950). In the distance is the commando carrier Bulwark (1948).
Object Details
| ID: | PM8012/17A |
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| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Bristol (1969); Bulwark (1948) |
| 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 |