The Canadian Navy aircraft carrier Bonaventure (1945) in the English Channel during the NATO exercise Peacekeeper.
A slightly distant starboard side view, taken from abaft the beam, of the Canadian Navy aircraft carrier Bonaventure (1945) under way in the English Channel during the NATO exercise Peacekeeper. Her hull number is 22 and she has a number of Grumman CS2F-2 Tracker aircraft and a Sikorsky HO4-S-3 helicopter on deck. The photographer is on board the Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker Tideflow (1954).
Object Details
| ID: | PCT19433 |
|---|---|
| Type: | Colour transparency |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Events: | NATO exercise Peacekeeper in the English Channel, 1969 |
| Vessels: | Bonaventure (1945) |
| Date made: | 24 September 1969 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm;Transparency: 35 mm x 38 mm |