On board the United States guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) during for an highline transfer with the destroyer James C Owens (1944) in the North Atlantic.
On board the United States Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) while on a voyage from Kiel to Norfolk, Virginia. The photographer is on the centreline of 01 deck abaft the Asroc launcher looking to port showing some of the crew carrying out an highline transfer evolution with the destroyer James C Owens (1944) which is alongside. The transfer crew are dressed in red overalls and are wearing life jackets. An unidentified officer is in the highline chair. 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: | PCT19626 |
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| Type: | Colour transparency |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Claude V Ricketts (1960); James C Owens (1944) |
| Date made: | 28 June to 12 July 1965 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm;Transparency: 35 mm x 38 mm |