Title:IRAQI NAVY AT UMM QASR, APRIL 2007 (TAPE 2) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 924
Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Summary: Scenes, some staged, showing members of the Iraqi Navy and Iraqi Marines on routine operations.
Description: Cockpit views from Royal Navy Lynx helicopter in flight over the Iraqi coast. Aerial views of ships and of the Al Basra Oil Terminal (ABOT), a platform in the Persian Gulf off the coast near Al Faw; oil tankers are moored alongside. British vessels HMS Cornwall (a frigate) and RFA Sir Bedivere can be seen. View from RFA Bedivere shows fast assault boat being winched aboard. Iraqi Navy patrol boat approaches Sir Bedivere: general views with ABOT in the distance. Iraqi Marines on an oil platform, manning a mounted machine gun. Sea views from on board a patrol boat; an Iraqi flag is mounted on a tripod at the stern of the boat. Shots of the sea and the wake. Crew of an Arab dhow wave at the camera. Final shots of Iraqi flag and the boat's wake.
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFV 924
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2007-04
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production sponsor)
Tilly, Ross (Corporal, RAF) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Iraqi Navy (regiment/service)
Iraqi Marines (regiment/service)
