A USN Douglas Skyraider flying past the Royal Navy aircraft carrier Centaur (1947) while the ship is under way in the Atlantic west of Gibraltar.
Looking from starboard to port across the flight deck of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier Centaur (1947) while the ship is under way in the Atlantic, west of Gibraltar, during the NATO exercise Riptide III, showing a United States Navy Douglas Skyhawk jet in flight. The Skyhawk has flown from either the USS Forrestal (1954) or the USS Enterprise (1960).
Object Details
| ID: | PM7595/1A |
|---|---|
| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wettern, Desmond Robert French |
| Vessels: | Centaur (1947) |
| Date made: | 10-15 August 1962 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wettern Collection |
| Measurements: | Film length: 35 mm x 190 mm;Frame: 35 mm x 38 mm |
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