The French Navy sail training topsail schooners La Belle Poule (1932) and L'Etoile (1932) near Hochdonn on the Kiel Canal from on board the United States guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960).
On board the United States Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) in the Kiel Canal near Hochdonn while on passage from Kiel to Norfolk, Virginia. 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 photographer is looking forward and to starboard from the starboard side of 1 deck amidships showing the French Naval Academy sail training topsail schooners La Belle Poule (1932) and L'Etoile (1932) motoring in the canal. They are seen from fine off the port quarter. Ahead of them is a Federal German Navy Köln class frigate.
Object Details
| ID: | PCT19637 |
|---|---|
| Type: | Colour transparency |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Claude V Ricketts (1960); L'Etoile (1932) La Belle Poule (1932) |
| Date made: | 28 June 1965 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm;Transparency: 35 mm x 38 mm |