HMS COVENTRY AND HMS BROADSWORD RUSHES [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: HMS COVENTRY AND HMS BROADSWORD RUSHES [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: DEH 105
  • Other titles: SELECTION OF ADMIRALTY RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT TRIALS AND RECORD FILMS AND VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Footage filmed in September 1980 of Type 42, Sheffield classed Destroyer «HMS Coventry» (D.118) at sea, taken from all angles, from both the air and alongside the ship. Later in the film, footage switches to Type 22 frigate «HMS Broadsword» (F.88), which can also be seen on IWM film DEH 91.
  • Description:
  • Alternative Title: SELECTION OF ADMIRALTY RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT TRIALS AND RECORD FILMS AND VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: Colour
  • Digitised:
  • Object_Number: DEH 105
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © Crown copyright. IWM (DEH 105)
  • Featured Period: 1990-2000
  • Production Date: 1980-09
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Admiralty Experimental Works, Haslar (Production sponsor)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 400ft
  • HD Media:
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    DEH 105

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    DEH 91 (BROADSWORD BOW AND STERN AT PLYMOUTH SEPTEMBER 1980 [Main Title])
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