The Royal Navy guided missile destroyer Kent (1961) pulling away from the Royal Fleet Auxiliary replenishment ship Black Rover (1973) in the North Atlantic during the NATO exercise Ocean Safari.
On board the Royal Fleet Auxiliary replenishment ship Black Rover (1973) while under way in the North Atlantic during the NATO exercise Ocean Safari. The photographer is looking forward and to starboard from the starboard side of the bridge wing showing the guided missile destroyer Kent (1961) pulling away from close alongside at the end of a refuelling serial. The pendant number of the Kent is D12 and she has the Westland Wessex HAS.1 helicopter XM327, coded 401, on her helicopter landing platform.
Object Details
| ID: | PM8055/19 |
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| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Black Rover (1973); Kent (1961) |
| Date made: | 14 October 1977 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Film length: 35 mm x 228 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm |