Trials Cruiser HMS Cumberland off Malta in pre-wetting experiments designed to keep radioactive fallout particles from adhering to a ship’s surfaces, Sep 1955.

Caption     Trials Cruiser HMS Cumberland off Malta in pre-wetting experiments designed to keep radioactive fallout particles from adhering to a ship’s surfaces, Sep 1955. ww2dbase
Photographer    Unknown
Source    ww2dbaseImperial War Museum
Identification Code   A 33350
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Photos at Same Place Mediterranean Sea
Added By David Stubblebine

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1. Commenter identity confirmed David Stubblebine says:
26 Aug 2020 09:15:13 PM

The Imperial War Museum notes: “British guinea pig ship's atomic test. September 1955, aerial photographs off Malta. The trials cruiser HMS Cumberland during anti-atomic tests in the Mediterranean. A small quantity of radioactive liquid representing atomic bomb fall-out was sprayed on to the ship's structure to test the efficiency of the washdown system. This system involves the continual washing of all weather surfaces of the ship during and after exposure.”

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