On board the United States guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) in the North Sea during a voyage from Kiel to Norfolk, Virginia.
On board the United States Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) in the North Sea while on a voyage from Kiel to Norfolk, Virginia. The photographer is looking forward from the starboard side of 01 deck abaft the forward 5 inch DP gun mount showing four of the ship's enlisted men on the forecastle. 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. A Federal German Navy frigate of the Köln class is ahead of her.
Object Details
| ID: | PCT19616 |
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| Type: | Colour transparency |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Claude V Ricketts (1960) |
| Date made: | 28-30 June 1965 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm;Transparency: 35 mm x 38 mm |