A port midship detail of the United States Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) at Norfolk Naval Base, Virginia
A port midship detail view of the United States Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) alongside a finger jetty at Norfolk Naval Base, Virginia. The ship is berthed port side to the jetty and the photographer is looking at the Asroc launcher between the funnels. 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.
Object Details
| ID: | PCT19575 |
|---|---|
| Type: | Colour transparency |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Claude V Ricketts (1960) |
| Date made: | 12 July 1965 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm;Transparency: 35 mm x 38 mm |
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