The Royal Navy frigate Galatea (1963) under way in the Strait of Gibraltar, heading into Gibraltar Bay
A distant aerial view of the stern of the Royal Navy frigate Galatea (1963) while under way in the Strait of Gibraltar, heading into Gibraltar Bay. The photographer is in the Galatea's Westland Wasp HAS.1 helicopter XT443, coded 452, which is in flight astern of the frigate at about 100 feet. The ship's pendant number is F18 and she has a VDS well cut into her transom.
Object Details
| ID: | PM8041/19 |
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| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Galatea (1963) |
| Date made: | September 1975 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Film length: 35 mm x 190 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm |