A very distant starboard beam view of the Royal Navy light cruiser Tiger (1945) during a NATO exercise in the North Atlantic off north-west Scotland

A very distant starboard broadside view of the Royal Navy light cruiser Tiger (1945) under way in the North Atalntic off north-west Scotland. A Danish Navy Bellona class corvette (1954) is astern of the Tiger (1945) and another escort is in the distance. Vice-Admiral Frank R Twiss was on board the Tiger commanding a fleet of 46 ships drawn from six NATO nations for exercise Flat Rock which took place in the waters off Cape Wrath and Loch Ewe between 16 and 24 October 1963.

Object Details

ID: PM7521/20A
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Wettern, Desmond Robert French
Vessels: Tiger (1945)
Date made: 16-24 October 1963
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection
Measurements: Film length: 35 mm x 40 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 40 mm
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