On board the Royal Navy aircraft carrier Eagle (1946) westbound in the Mediterranean.
On board the Royal Navy aircraft carrier Eagle (1946) on passage west in the Mediterranean. The photographer is on the port side of the island superstructure looking aft and to port showing four Blackburn Buccaneer S.1 aircraft of 800 Squadron parked on the port side of the flight deck and three Supermarine Scimitar F.1 aircraft of 800B Squadron parked on the starboard side. The ship's 820 Squadron Westland Wessex HAS.1 helicopter XS122 coded 290/E is acting as plane guard.
Object Details
| ID: | PCT19358 |
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| Type: | Colour transparency |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Eagle (1946) |
| Date made: | 11-21 May 1965 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm;Transparency: 35 mm x 38 mm |