On board the United States guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) while on a voyage from Kiel to Norfolk, Virginia.
On board the United States Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) which is stopped while on passage from Kiel to Norfolk, Virginia. The photographer is on the port side of the quarterdeck showing four of the crew watching a boat being launched by the destroyer Du Pont (1956). The Du Pont, hull number 941, is seen from just ahead of her port beam but everything aft of her after funnel is out of the picture. 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: | PCT19642 |
|---|---|
| Type: | Colour transparency |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Claude V Ricketts (1960); Du Pont (1956) |
| Date made: | 28 June - 12 July 1965 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm;Transparency: 35 mm x 38 mm |