A port side view, taken from well ahead of the beam, of the Royal Navy commando carrier Bulwark (1948) under way during exercise Sally Forth in the North Sea off the Firth of Forth. Her pendant number is R08 and she has a Westland Wessex HU.5 helicopter in her starboard forward deck park. Her radio aerial masts are lowered for flight operations and her stern is out of the picture. The photographer is on board the Royal Navy guided missile destroyer Bristol (1969).