Title:EXERCISE MARINER, OCTOBER 1953 - REEL 1 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:NAT 1398
Other titles:SHAPE FILM LIBRARY [Allocated Series Title]
Summary:General shots around Portsmouth dockyard, including dockyard workers and HMS Victory. Naval ships in dock include the frigates HMS Largo Bay and De Bitter (Dutch), the cruiser HMS Sheffield, and a British submarine. Short sequence showing a Short Sunderland flying boat of RAF Coastal Command off the coast at Calshot, England, with crew and fuel arriving on launches; the Sunderland takes off. Footage taken at St Eval RAF Station, Cornwall: members of Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) 405 Maritime Reconnaissance Squadron and their Avro Lancaster aircraft. Groundcrews carry out maintenance. RCAF Flying Officer D Heath (from Sherbrooke, Canada - believed to be Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia) in his cockpit. Avro Shackleton bomber (possibly RAF) takes off.
Description:
Alternative Title:SHAPE FILM LIBRARY [Allocated Series Title]
