The Westland Wessex HAS.1 helicopter XS 128 coded F/B on the ground at the temporary base of 845 Naval Air Commando Squadron at Sibu, Sarawak.
A slightly distant port bow view of the Westland Wessex HAS.1 helicopter XS 128 coded F/B on the ground at the temporary base of a detachment of 845 Naval Air Commando Squadron at Sibu, Sarawak, which operated from 19 August 1963 to 23 June 1965 during the Indonesian and Malaysian Confrontation. The aircraft is on a perforated steel hardstanding. A canvas hangar and a yellow painted Royal Navy tanker lorry on a Bedford TK chassis are in the background.
Object Details
| ID: | PCT19534 |
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| Type: | Colour transparency |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Events: | Indonesian and Malaysian confrontation, 1963-1966 |
| Date made: | October 1964 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm;Transparency: 35 mm x 38 mm |