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.
A slightly distant port side view, taken from well abaft the beam, of the guided missile destroyer Kent (1961) pulling away from the Royal Fleet Auxiliary replenishment ship Black Rover (1973) after a refuelling serial in the North Atlantic during the NATO exercise Ocean Safari. 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. The photographer is on board the Black Rover (1973).
Object Details
| ID: | PM8056/21 |
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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 190 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm |