the United States Navy guided missile frigate Dewey (1958) from on board the United States guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) in the North Atlantic.
On board the United States Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) on a voyage from Kiel to Norfolk Naval Base, Virginia. The photographer is on the starboard bridge wing at 02 deck level looking forward and to starboard showing Lieutenant William Kelly RN leaning on the bridge screen. Kelly is the senior Royal Navy officer on board. 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. The United States guided missile frigate Dewey (1958), seen from fine off her port quarter, is pulling ahead of the Ricketts and in the distance is the fleet oiler Caloosahatchee (1945) replenishing ships on both sides.
Object Details
| ID: | PCT19632 |
|---|---|
| Type: | Colour transparency |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Dewey (1958); Claude V Ricketts (1960) Caloosahatchee (1945) |
| Date made: | 28 June - 12 July 1965 |
| People: | Kelly, William |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm;Transparency: 35 mm x 38 mm |