On board the Royal Navy coastal minesweeper Glasserton (1953) in Gibraltar Bay with four sisters to starboard

On board the Royal Navy coastal minesweeper Glasserton (1953) in Gibraltar Bay in early 1980 bound out from the harbour during exercise Test Gate. The photographer is looking to starboard from the forecastle deck showing four other Ton class minesweepers under way off to starboard.

Object Details

ID: PM8098/16
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Wettern, Desmond Robert French
Vessels: Glasserton (1953); Ton class (1952-1959)
Date made: Early 1980
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection
Measurements: Film length: 35 mm x 228 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm