The Royal Navy assault ship Fearless (1963) at anchor off Southern Sardinia during NATO exercise Dawn Patrol 74

A distant port side view, taken from well ahead of the beam, of Royal Navy assault ship Fearless (1963) at anchor off Cape Teulada, Southern Sardinia during the NATO exercise Dawn Patrol 74 which involved over sixty ships from the U.S.A., U.K., Italy, Turkey and Greece. Her pendant number is L10, she is ballasted down and she has helicopters on her landing deck aft. The photographer is on board the Royal Navy commando carrier Hermes (1953) and commando Land Rover vehicles are on her flight deck in the foreground.

Object Details

ID: PM8020/6
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Wettern, Desmond Robert French
Vessels: Hermes (1953); Fearless (1963)
Date made: Early May 1974
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection
Measurements: Film length: 35 mm x 228 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm