On board the United States Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) on a voyage from Kiel to Norfolk, Virginia.
On board the United States Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) during a voyage from Kiel to Norfolk, Virginia. The photographer is in the engine room looking at the main control panel and a Royal Navy engine room artificer is standing watch. 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. A vertical format image.
Object Details
| ID: | PCT19683 |
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| Type: | Colour transparency |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Claude V Ricketts (1960) |
| Date made: | 28 June to 12 July 1965 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm;Transparency: 38 mm x 35 mm |