HMS Ashanti

Sirius was with STANAVFORLANT in 1974. Good candidate?

Don K.

sounds like a good candidate to me don. the other thing that i had'nt noticed before is the us ship seems to be flying the white ensign from her mast. was this usual?, i dont recall any other ships flying the ensign when we were in STANAVFORLANT on bacchante in1980.

jack dusty

Presumably a friendly gesture as part of the dressed overall display.

DD941 'USS Du Pont' Forrest Sherman, launched 11 May 1955, Bath Iron Works, Maine. Received Anti Submarine Warfare Modification sometime between 1967 and 1971 (Boston Naval Yard) which fitted 2 x triple MK32 torpedo tubes (fore and aft), ASROC (Anti Submarine Rocket) in place of aft gun mounts and a VDS, variable depth Sonar on the stern.
Asroc was a preprogrammed solid fuel rocket that propelled a MK44, Mk 46 torpedo, or Nuclear Depth Bomb to a splash point in the ocean determined by the ships active sonar.
There's a classic Sunday afternoon picture 'The Bedford Incident' where one is used. "An American destroyer captain is determined to confront a Soviet submarine caught violating territorial waters. Perhaps too determined. Richard Widmark plays a hardened cold-warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. Sidney Poitier is a reporter given permission to interview the captain during a routine patrol. Poitier gets more than he bargained for when the Bedford discovers a Soviet sub in the depths and the captain begins a relentless pursuit, pushing his crew to the breaking point." Classic line from the film:
"Well Mr Munceford, if they fire one, we'll fire one"
XO "Fire One, Aye Sir" and hits the big red button....
(Cue - exchange of buckets of sunshine)
.(Cloud)

brings to mind the day we entered quebec with stanavforlant, a cold and wet day and the us commander ordered all ships to enter harbour in full whites at procedure alpha. this was not a popular decision with the jimmy, he wasnt best pleased with the whitener from our shoes running across his decks.

jack dusty

i think this was navy days at rosyth alex

that would certainly explain all the bunting but would the nato squadron be involved in navy days?

jack dusty

have come across two pictures that i think were taken at the same time will put them on alex