Heavy Weather 1
This is an image by an unknown photographer of HMS Ardent in the western Atlantic in the early part of 1980.
At the time she was part of NATO's Standing Naval Force Atlantic (STANAVFORLANT or SNFL) and was about to undertake a replenishment at sea (RAS) as she was in need of fuel.
I will post more photos in this sequence taken by the same photographer, who I believe was using a personal lightweight camera and was therefore probably a member of the tanker's crew or of an embarked helicopter flight.
If anyone has any idea who that individual is, I would very much appreciate some details, if only to get permission to keep this photo up on flickr.
I obtained the series of prints from which these are scanned aboard HMS Ardent in Dec 80 when copies were made available to the crew.
The ship's Westland Lynx helicopter can be seen ranged on the flight-deck.
Heavy Weather 1
This is an image by an unknown photographer of HMS Ardent in the western Atlantic in the early part of 1980.
At the time she was part of NATO's Standing Naval Force Atlantic (STANAVFORLANT or SNFL) and was about to undertake a replenishment at sea (RAS) as she was in need of fuel.
I will post more photos in this sequence taken by the same photographer, who I believe was using a personal lightweight camera and was therefore probably a member of the tanker's crew or of an embarked helicopter flight.
If anyone has any idea who that individual is, I would very much appreciate some details, if only to get permission to keep this photo up on flickr.
I obtained the series of prints from which these are scanned aboard HMS Ardent in Dec 80 when copies were made available to the crew.
The ship's Westland Lynx helicopter can be seen ranged on the flight-deck.