The passenger liner Queen Elizabeth 2 (1969) passing the lines of warships anchored at Spithead for the Nato 20th Anniversary Review.

A starboard side view, taken from just ahead of the beam, of the passenger liner Queen Elizabeth 2 (1969) passing the lines of warships anchored at Spithead for the Nato 20th Anniversary Review. She is proceeding eastwards bound out from Southampton. The photographer is on board the Royal Navy Type 15 frigate Wakeful (1943) and he is looking north from the eastern end of the review lines. The Trinity House Vessel Patricia (1938) is in the right background.

Object Details

ID: PCT19465
Type: Colour transparency
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Wettern, Desmond Robert French
Events: Nato 20th Anniversary Review At Spithead, 1969
Vessels: Queen Elizabeth 2 (1969); Patricia (1938)
Date made: 16 May 1969
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection
Measurements: Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm;Transparency: 35 mm x 38 mm