On board the United States Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) while refuelling from the oiler Caloosahatchee (1945) during a voyage from Kiel to Norfolk, Virginia. The photographer is on the port side of the flag deck at 03 level looking aft and slightly to port showing jackstay lines in place between the two ships. Men wearing red overalls and life jackets are dealing with a mail bag on 01 deck just abaft the Asroc launcher and they are under the command of an officer in white overalls. Only the stern of the oiler is in 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.