Title:RAMP TRIAL AT ZETA BERTH (ATTURM) AND AND SAUNTON SANDS, MARCH 1980 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFM 579
Other titles:AMPHIBIOUS TRIALS AND TRAINING UNIT, ROYAL MARINES [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Details of trials on a Landing Craft Mechanised (Mark 9) in which the main ramp door is lowered. Camera position is on board the LCM(9).
Description: Workmen on board LCM(9) moored at Zeta Point near Instow. Workmen with ropes take position below and at the side of the ramp; one of them (smoking a pipe) gives a thumbs up signal and the ramp is slowly lowered. Men hold the guide ropes as the ramp is lowered to water level. Hand is raised as a signal to stop. The ramp is raised, lowered and raised; adjustments are made to mechanisms.
Ramp lowering trial near Saunton Sands, supervised by Royal Marines officers. This time, the vessel is in motion. Ramp lowers to reveal Saunton Sands in the middle distance.
Alternative Title:AMPHIBIOUS TRIALS AND TRAINING UNIT, ROYAL MARINES [Allocated Series Title]
