MARINES FROM HMS GLOUCESTER BOARD A TUG [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: MARINES FROM HMS GLOUCESTER BOARD A TUG [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ADM 6396
  • Other titles: THE ROYAL NAVY IN THE GULF, 1990-1991 [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: HMS Gloucester intercepts and boards a tug and a vehicle ferry.
  • Description: I. LS broad on the starboard bow of a US Iowa Class battleship - possibly USS Missouri. MS along flightdeck to Lynx 410 - it orientates about its deck lock, and camera focuses on the harpoon gear beneath the aircraft - it retracts and 410 takes off, shedding its comm lead. Further shots of the battleship - the cameraman pulling back to show that the ship is actually on the horizon. II. LS to tug towing two barges. Image of the tug as shown on LAS monitor (?) in the bridge. Outside on the bridge Wing Commander Wilcocks give his orders to RM sergeant (Ryan ?) and a Lieutenant - the barges are to be checked by a boat party. View aft between funnel and starboard Phalanx as the Lynx takes off. LS as marines rope down onto the tug and move forward towards the bridge. Lynx lands back on, then takes off again. Gloucester lowers a boat - an Avon Searider - to inspect the barges - it moves away from the ship's side so precipitately that the painter is only just let slip in time. LSs as boat's crew board and inspect one of the barges, the Lynx hovering overhead. XLS of distant aircraft closing Gloucester (the cameraman comments that it is more than his job's worth not to get this) to fly past right to left - a Nimrod MR2. The aircraft circles the ships - strong radar interference on sound. HA.MS over the side to a sea snake basking in the clear water. LS-MS as a Jaguar closes to fly low past the ship, then sweeps round for another pass - its advent is sufficiently dramatic to prompt one onlooker to exclaim 'Jesus wept'. III. Another interception. MS of LCT-style vehicle ferry in convoy with a tug and barges. MS aft down port side of Gloucester to an officer looking out at the scene - the ship turns to port, heeling noticeably. The Searider is lowered and a party of marines sets off. Commander Wilcocks observes progress through binoculars. Lieutenant communicates with the boat crew via handset. The boat returns from the tug to pick up more men. On the bridge the OOW gives the necessary orders to keep Gloucester on station, while a Sub-Lieutenant observes the ships through his binoculars. Commander Wilcocks is speaking over the telephone - his task for the morning is to ensure that 'these stills' get away to London.
  • Alternative Title: THE ROYAL NAVY IN THE GULF, 1990-1991 [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: Colour
  • Digitised:
  • Object_Number: ADM 6396
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © Crown copyright. IWM (ADM 6396)
  • Featured Period: 1990-2000
  • Production Date: 1990-11
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations (Navy) Film and Photographic (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Wilcocks, P L (person) Royal Navy, Gloucester (regiment/service) Royal Navy, Royal Marines (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: ships, British naval - destroyer: Gloucester (object name) ships, United States naval - battleship: Iowa Class (object name) ships, civilian - assistance: tug (object name) ships, civilian - ferry (object name) aircraft, British naval - helicopter: Westland Lynx (object name) operations, British naval - search: boarding party (object name) weapons, British naval - smallarm: L85A1 rifle (object name) weapons, British naval - smallarm: L86A (object name) aircraft, British - combat: Hawker Siddeley Nimrod (object name) aircraft, British - combat: SEPECAT Jaguar (object name) 12/7(536.8) (event) Persian Gulf (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: Beta-SP; VHS Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Running time: 19 mins
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