Title:LOADING OF DRACONE ONTO DUKW PLATFORM, BROADSANDS, 1967 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFM 577
Other titles:AMPHIBIOUS TRIALS AND TRAINING UNIT, ROYAL MARINES [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: A dracone barge (a long, flexible, tubular barge full of fuel, designed to be dragged in the wake of a ship) is prepared at Broadsands, Devon.
Description: DUKW manoeuvres in the sea, and is also seen on Broadsands Beach. Here, it uses a boom and winch to haul an empty Dracone barge on board as onlookers watch. The DUKW tows the Dracone behind it through the water.
Alternative Title:AMPHIBIOUS TRIALS AND TRAINING UNIT, ROYAL MARINES [Allocated Series Title]
