Boxer at Sea
In the English Channel. The copyright is the Royal Navy's, but the photo was taken by me.
We were about to go into harbour for maintenance and would lose some of the bits and pieces that are visible, hence the Captain's desire for a photo before he relinquished command. Normally, such PR photos would be taken by a helicopter. Ours wasn't available, and nor was any other one, so it was me tipped into the ship's RHIB. I took this photo before the ship drove away. We then drifted whilst the ship bore down on us at speed, making several passes. On each occasion, I took a few shots at the last possible minute whilst we bobbed up and down, and then the RHIB crew opened up our engines and we cleared out of the way and then negotiated the wash off the ship. Good fun.
A Type 22 Batch 2 anti-submarine frigate, designed and built for the Cold War, Boxer proved too big and expensive for the Royal Navy and everyone else, in the 1990s and was eventually sunk as a target in September 2004.
Scanned from a print.
Boxer at Sea
In the English Channel. The copyright is the Royal Navy's, but the photo was taken by me.
We were about to go into harbour for maintenance and would lose some of the bits and pieces that are visible, hence the Captain's desire for a photo before he relinquished command. Normally, such PR photos would be taken by a helicopter. Ours wasn't available, and nor was any other one, so it was me tipped into the ship's RHIB. I took this photo before the ship drove away. We then drifted whilst the ship bore down on us at speed, making several passes. On each occasion, I took a few shots at the last possible minute whilst we bobbed up and down, and then the RHIB crew opened up our engines and we cleared out of the way and then negotiated the wash off the ship. Good fun.
A Type 22 Batch 2 anti-submarine frigate, designed and built for the Cold War, Boxer proved too big and expensive for the Royal Navy and everyone else, in the 1990s and was eventually sunk as a target in September 2004.
Scanned from a print.