Title:MOTOR TORPEDO BOATS AT SPEED (section) [Main Title]
Film Number:MGH 241-14
Other titles:BRITISH POWER BOAT COMPANY COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Newsreel item featuring various shots of armed and unarmed 60 ft motor torpedo boats.
Description: A 60 ft motor torpedo boat (MTB), number 7, moving in harbour. Various MTBs motoring around the Solent in formation and individually, including boat numbers 8, 9 and 10 (some with no number or torpedo gantry). Shots on the bridge and of the cabin of one of the MTBs. Title of Gaumont British News newsreel 'Motor Torpedo boats at speed', followed by shots of MTBs, fully armed, motoring in open water. (The boats weaponry is two sets of four Lewis guns, which one MTB gunner moves around for the camera.)
Alternative Title:BRITISH POWER BOAT COMPANY COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:B&W
Digitised:
Object_Number:MGH 241-14
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:1937
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Gaumont British News (Production company)
