Title:LCM(9) LOADING TWO CENTURION TANKS IN DRY AND WET CONDITIONS, INSTOW, FEBRUARY 1966 (PART 2) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFM 598-2
Other titles:AMPHIBIOUS TRIALS AND TRAINING UNIT, ROYAL MARINES [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Embarkation exercises, each one preceded by a dated slate.
Description: "16-2-66 Crow Point". L700 comes ashore carrying two beach armoured recovery vehicles, and sets sail again with a tractor on board.
"18-2-66 Instow" LCM embarking two Centurion tanks, at sea with the tanks on board, and returning to shore for disembarkation.
"19-2-66 Run X Instow-Saunton-Instow" Transfer of tanks between Instow beach and Saunton Sands.
Helicopter deck on board Fearless; a Wessex helicopter hovers overhead and has a small artillery piece attached beneath it as an underslung load.
"3-3-66 LCM(9) Run XII Instow". Various vehicles (including Land Rovers and BARV) drive on board L700; one Land Rover becomes stricken and has to be towed away. Other vehicles drive through the shallow water on to the craft.
"3-3-66 LCM(9) XIII Instow". Lorries embark and disembark.
Alternative Title:AMPHIBIOUS TRIALS AND TRAINING UNIT, ROYAL MARINES [Allocated Series Title]
