On board the Royal Navy coastal minelayer Plover (1937) under way in Stokes Bay, The Solent
On board the coastal minelayer Plover (1937) under way during a minelaying exercise in Stokes Bay, The Solent. The photographer is in the wheelhouse on the starboard side looking to port showing an officer taking a bearing at the compass with the binnacle on the right. Officers, including a lieutenant, are working on a chart in the background.
Object Details
| ID: | PM7561/18A |
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| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Plover (1937) |
| Date made: | June 1962 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Film length: 35 mm x 228 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm |