On board the Royal Navy coastal minehunter Bossington (1955) anchored near Port Said, Suez Canal
On board the Royal Navy coastal minehunter Bossington (1955) at anchor in the Suez Canal near Port Said. The photographer is on the port side of the sweep deck looking forward, up and to starboard showing her port derrick, funnel, tripod mast and platform above her cable drum. She has the blue logo of the Suez Canal Authority on her funnel and she is engaged in Operation Rheostat One, the clearing of the Suez Canal of ordnance left over from the Egypt-Israel War.
Object Details
| ID: | PCT19443 |
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| Type: | Colour transparency |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Events: | Operation Rheostat One, 1974 |
| Vessels: | Bossington (1955) |
| Date made: | May - June 1974 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm;Transparency: 35 mm x 38 mm |