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Other titles:UNDERWATER SABOTEURS AT WORK [Alternative Title]
Summary: Unedited scenes showing naval "saboteurs" in Malta.
Description: I. MS of "saboteur" wearing snorkel gear. He shelters behind the bow of a small rowing boat in Sliema Creek, before diving out of sight.
II. Sequence showing dghaisas (dghajsas) lying off HMS Birmingham in Grand Harbour, Malta. Man in bum boat offers soft drinks from a crate. Two bum boats lie close beneath the stern of destroyer HMS Saintes (D.84), and anti-submarine frigate Undaunted (F.53) - a ship's launch passes left to right in the background.
III. Series of underwater shots showing saboteurs wearing oxygen re-breathing apparatus and holding clamp mines - they swim past with their heads above water, and then again completely submerged. The divers assemble near a mooring buoy, and then dive, taking bearings from their wrist compasses. In another sequence, they surface near a buoy, using it as a cover while they look about - they then dive, check compasses and swim off.
Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor)
Film House Productions Ltd (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Navy, BIRMINGHAM (HMS), light cruiser (1936) (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Saintes (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Undaunted (regiment/service)
Keywords: ships, British naval - cruiser: Birmingham (object name)
ships, British naval - destroyer: Saintes (D.84) (object name)
ships, British naval - frigate: Undaunted (F.53) (object name)
training, British naval - combat: sabotage, anti-ship (object name)
Malta (geography)
