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 01 deck abaft the Asroc launcher looking forward and slightly to starboard showing a jackstay transfer with men wearing red overalls and life jackets dealing with a canvas bag. They are under the command of an officer in white overalls. A man in the foreground is using a radio microphone to control the movements of the jackstay. 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.