A port side detail of the United States Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) at Norfolk Naval Base, Virginia
A port side detail view of the United States Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) alongside a finger jetty at Norfolk Naval Base, Virginia. The ship is berthed port side to the jetty and the photographer is looking at the aft superstructure from just ahead of the beam showing the boat davits, aft directors, aft 5 inch D.P. gun mount and twin Tartar missile launcher. 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: | PCT19646 |
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| Type: | Colour transparency |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Claude V Ricketts (1960) |
| Date made: | 12 July 1965 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm;Transparency: 35 mm x 38 mm |