Title:HMS SHEFFIELD VISITS MONTREAL [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ADM 1485
Other titles:POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - MISCELLANEOUS [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: HMS Sheffield at Montreal, Canada, July 1954; over 7000 people visited the ship on the two 'Open to Visitors' days.
Description: Car park: visitors arrive. Scenes of visitors on Quarterdeck, coming up the gangway, on forecastle, on outwalks between Admiral's barge and motor boat. Chief Poking Fire and a group of Iroquois Indians from the Caughnawaga reservation visit HMS Sheffield; seen coming aboard and talking with Commodore K McM Campbell-Walter on the Quarterdeck. (Afterwards were tribal dances and a ship renaming ceremony - possibly not filmed; see CNI notes.)
Alternative Title:POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - MISCELLANEOUS [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Campbell-Walter, Keith McM (person)
Poking Fire, Chief of the Iroquois (person)
Royal Navy, Sheffield (regiment/service)
Keywords: ships, British naval - cruiser: Sheffield (object name)
society, Canadian - ethnic: Iroquois Indians (object name)
society, British naval - friendship (object name)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada (geography)
