On board the United States Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) while under way in Kiel harbour, bound out. The photographer is looking forward from the starboard side at 01 deck level showing the forward 5 inch D.P. gun turret and some of the crew lining the forecastle deck. The Ricketts' crew consisted of 10 officers and 164 crew from the US Navy with the rest of the complement being from West Germany, Italy, Greece, United Kingdom, Netherlands and Turkey as a mixed manning experiment. Federal German Navy warships are alongside the quays in the background, including an Hamburg class destroyer alongside the tanker Jeverland (1937), which has the pendant number Y826, and the training frigate Scharnhorst (1943), pendant F213.