Title:LCM(9) LOADING AND UNLOADING TRACKED BEACH RECOVERY VEHICLES, INSTOW, MARCH 1968 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFM 480
Other titles:AMPHIBIOUS TRIALS AND TRAINING UNIT, ROYAL MARINES [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Several trials, each preceded by a dated cameraman's slate, showing tracked vehicles embarking and disembarking from the Landing Craft Mechanised Mark 9.
Description: "14-6-68 LCM9 Run I Instow". Long shot of LCM(9) in shallow water disembarking tanks. A beach armoured recovery vehicle (BARV, in camouflage livery) is in the water nearby, and a second LCM(9) can be seen in the background.
"14-6-68 LCM9 Run II Instow". {Slate only; no footage.]
"15-6-68 LCM9 Run I Instow". Landing craft F2 embarks armour. F3 can also be seen (with other landing craft in the distance). Tank wades aboard.
"15-6-68 LCM9 Run II Instow". Extreme long shot shows BARV and Land Rover embarking onto F3. Closer shots as a self-propelled gun wades aboard, followed by lorries.
"15-6-68 LCM9 Run III Instow". Class 30 trackway bobbin is manoeuvred off F2 and brought ashore by BARV. F3 embarks lorries.
Alternative Title:AMPHIBIOUS TRIALS AND TRAINING UNIT, ROYAL MARINES [Allocated Series Title]
