SCENES ON BOARD THE ESCORT CARRIER HMS KHEDIVE [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: SCENES ON BOARD THE ESCORT CARRIER HMS KHEDIVE [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: MGH 6840
  • Other titles: AMATEUR FILM BY HAROLD SALISBURY [Alternative Title]
  • Summary: Amateur film shot by Fleet Air Arm pilot Lieutenant Harold Salisbury while serving with 899 Squadron embarked on HMS Khedive (D62) in the Mediterranean in 1944, records carrier landings and off-duty shore scenes.
  • Description: Reel 1: Seafires onboard aircraft carrier HMS Khedive. Dog [Sally?] onboard ship. Carrier travelling in convoy. Sailing along coastline. Men diving into sea. Eating grapes. Moving Seafires onboard carrier. Strapping pilot in. Seafire takes off. Wildcat lands on deck. View of AA guns. In a smaller boat sailing past the carrier. Ensign flying. Seafire takes off. Seafire lands with the aid of an arrester hook. Bombing up aircraft. Views of Seafire cockpit. Seafires on ground at unidentified airfield. Towing aircraft. Aircraft flies past carrier (filmed onboard carrier). Moving aircraft below deck. Sunbathing. Views of destroyer ORP Garland (H37), acting as a convoy escort. in Med from Apr-Nov 1944. Reel 2: Ship’s crew assembling on deck for group photograph. Salisbury's fellow Fleet Air Arm pilots sitting on rocks, sunbathing and swimming in the sea. Seafires running engines onboard HMS Khedive. Sunbathing on deck of Khedive, with another carrier astern. Close up shots of lizards. Views of T class destroyer HMS Tuscan (R56) sailing as carrier screen (August 1944 - deployed as screen for Carrier Task Force in Mediterranean), transfering mail by breeches buoy. Fast Motor Launch passes to port of aircraft carrier. Seafires (with K marking) land on carrier with aid of arrester hook. Refuelling at sea to destroyer astern. Harold Salisbury acting as batman signalling aircraft to land. Seafire III (NN 344) lands on deck. Fleet Air Arm personnel play deck hockey. Seafires on deck with Gibraltar in background. RNVR Lieutenant taking photograph of cameraman. Seafire taking off. Two airmen laughing and gesticulating to the cameraman. Choppy sea. White hospital ship and carriers moored off Gibraltar. Low level fly past by B-24 Liberator [possibly in Coastal Command colours]. Travelling by horse and cart (gharry). Street scene outside NAAFI Expeditionary Forces Institute marked "Other Ranks All Services". Man in white shorts. Street scenes in Alexandria, with Arabs seated outside cafés and European girl collecting for Red Cross outside Thomas Cook building. Climbing into Seafire cockpit, with nine missions completed. Seafires taking off from and landing on HMS Khedive. Painting K on flight deck. Refuelling at sea to destroyer astern. Ashore on seafront at Alexandria, outside the Marina House Hotel and walking along the Corniche by the sea. Swimming in sea. Out sailing on a yacht Belzebuth of the Cercle Nautique Français (CNF, Alexandria) with some local ladies, skippered by an Egyptian. Choppy seas.
  • Alternative Title: AMATEUR FILM BY HAROLD SALISBURY [Alternative Title]
  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: MGH 6840
  • Sound: Silent
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  • Production Date: 1944
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm 971 ft
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