The Hochdonn Viaduct and the Kiel Canal from on board the United States Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) while on passage from Kiel to Norfolk, Virginia. The photographer is looking aft and to starboard from the starboard side of 1 deck amidships showing one of the French Naval Academy sail training topsail schooners, either La Belle Poule (1932) or L'Etoile (1932), seen from wide off her port bow, motoring in the canal. The north side of the Hochdonn Viaduct is in the background. 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.