The United States Navy aircraft carrier Forrestal (1954) in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, from on board the United States guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960).
A port side view, taken from well abaft the beam, of the United States Navy aircraft carrier Forrestal (1954) under way in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia. Her hull number is CVA 59 and she has three Sikorsky helicopters on deck. The photographer is on board the United States Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960). 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: | PCT19596 |
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| Type: | Colour transparency |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Claude V Ricketts (1960); Forrestal (1954) |
| 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 |