On board a Royal Navy Ton class coastal minesweepers under way off Gibraltar during exercise Test Gate.
On board a Royal Navy Ton class coastal minesweeper under way off Gibraltar during exercise Test Gate. The photographer is on the forecastle to starboard of the 40 mm Bofors gun looking forward showing the anchor windlass. Three other Ton class minesweepers of the 10th Mine Counter Measures Squadron are turning to port ahead of the photographer's ship.
Object Details
| ID: | PM8107/28 |
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| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Ton class (1952-1959) |
| Date made: | Early 1980 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Film length: 35 mm x 107 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm |