A close port side detail view of the Royal Navy coastal minesweeper Woolaston (1958) berthed alongside at Kuching, Sarawak.

A close port side detail view of the Royal Navy coastal minesweeper Woolaston (1958) berthed alongside a wharf at Kuching, Sarawak. The photographer is on the wharf alongside the sweep deck of the Woolaston looking forward showing her sweep deck, funnel, foremast, bridge superstructure and forecastle deck. She is a unit of the 6th Minecountermeasures Squadron and on her funnel she has a red-edged inverted white triangle with a black footprint logo. All of her deck fittings, including the minesweeping winch, have black covers. This is a vertical format image.

Object Details

ID: PCT19525
Type: Colour transparency
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Wettern, Desmond Robert French
Events: Indonesian and Malaysian confrontation, 1963-1966
Vessels: Woolaston (1958)
Date made: October-November 1964
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection
Measurements: Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm;Transparency: 38 mm x 35 mm