On board the United States Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) in Chesapeake Bay.
On board the United States Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) while under way in Chesapeake Bay approaching Norfolk Naval Base, Virginia. The photographer is looking forward from the port side of the forecastle abaft the single 5 inch D.P. gun mount showing men in whites manning the forecastle. Their headgear shows they are from different nationalities. The ship is following astern of two others. 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: | PCT19579 |
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| 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 |