AIR-SEA RESCUE LAUNCHES [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: AIR-SEA RESCUE LAUNCHES [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ACB 74
  • Other titles:
  • Summary:
  • Description: I. An HSL enters Shoreham harbour; the crew stand on deck, and the launch is securely moored; other, smaller, launches are moored nearby. Launch No 73 leaves the harbour (an American vessel); HSL No 183 moves from the camera, away from the harbour and out to sea; shots of Nos 183 and 73 arriving in harbour again, and of the former crew being helped ashore, after the HSL has been tied up; a Walrus flies overhead; film of Walrus taking off and landing (various takes); a man signals from the HSL with an Aldis lamp; close-up of hands on the wheel of the HSL and on the engine-room telegraph (signalling 'full-fore together'); film of a man fishing, from the deck - he hastily pulls in his line and runs down to the hold; others jump up, after relaxing, smoking etc. The HSL is cast off from a buoy (Shoreham in the background) - men stand on the jetty - one hauls on a rope. II. Film of a HSL in rough sea - five men are standing on board, with their backs to camera; various on board, with their backs to camera; various shots of stern wave (with rear AA gun in foreground); on the bridge, a Signals Officer waits; on shore, we see a coastguard's signalling turret - two men (with a dog) prepare to signal. One flashes an Aldis, another watches through a telescope; general shot of harbour, with lamp fishing from coastguard turret in distance; two members of HSL crew (one in a white sweater); tattered RAF flag on the mast, film of HSL 183 travelling at speed through the water (and overtaking vessel from which footage shot).
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-07-19
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company) Coop, Eric W (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Navy (regiment/service) United States Navy (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: communications, British air - direct: signalling (object name) aircraft, British naval - seaplane: Supermarine Walrus (object name) equipment, British air - general: Aldis lamp (object name) ships, British naval - assistance: HSL No 183 (object name) equipment, British naval - surveillance: telescope (object name) ships, United States naval - assistance: Air Sea Rescue Launch No 73 (object name) GB, England & Shoreham, Sussex <harbour> (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 2 Footage: 1629 ft; Running time: 27 mins
  • Notes: Summary: see remarks to ACB 21.
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ACB 74

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