A line of four Royal Navy Ton class coastal minesweepers under way off Gibraltar during exercise Test Gate.
A distant port quarter view, taken from wide off the stern, of a line of four Royal Navy Ton class coastal minesweepers under way off Gibraltar during exercise Test Gate. They are all members of the 10th Mine Counter Measures Squadron and are motoring in line ahead in the order Crofton (1958), Hodgeston (1954, Alfriston (1953) and Brereton (1953) . The photographer is on board another 10th MCMS minesweeper. The image is slightly unsharp.
Object Details
| ID: | PM8106/27 |
|---|---|
| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Brereton (1953); Alfriston (1953) Hodgeston (1954) Crofton (1958) |
| Date made: | Early 1980 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Film length: 35 mm x 152 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm |
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