The United States Navy guided missile light cruiser Little Rock (1944) approaching Norfolk Naval Base, Virginia.
A slightly distant port side view, taken from abaft the beam of the United States Navy guided missile light cruiser Little Rock (1944) under way in the approaches to Norfolk Naval Base, Virginia. Her hull number is 4 and she has a bright orange Sikorsky helicopter on her fantail. The photographer is on board the guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) and a German naval rating is in the foreground. 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: | PCT19658 |
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| Type: | Colour transparency |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Claude V Ricketts (1960); Little Rock (1944) |
| 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 |