A starboard side view of the United States Navy guided missile frigate Dewey (1958) under way in the North Atlantic bound for Norfolk, Virginia
A starboard near broadside view, taken from just abaft the beam, of the United States Navy guided missile frigate Dewey (19580 under way in the North Atlantic bound for Norfolk, Virginia. Her bow and stern are out of the picture. The photographer is on board the United States Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) on a voyage 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.
Object Details
| ID: | PCT19680 |
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| Type: | Colour transparency |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Claude V Ricketts (1960); Dewey (1958) |
| Date made: | 1 - 12 July 1965 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm;Transparency: 35 mm x 38 mm |