Title:HMS SHEFFIELD VISITS BOSTON AND NEW YORK [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ADM 1493
Other titles:POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - MISCELLANEOUS [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Record of HMS Sheffield visiting Boston and New York in the USA during September 1954.
Description: I. HMS Sheffield at Boston, Massachusetts, 9th September 1954. She is greeted by RCAF Pipe Band, which marches down and plays alongside. Senior Commissioned Gunner (G) R Edwards of Southsea shows points of interest on the forecastle and Able Seaman D C Paton of Glasgow pipes on the flag deck. (The RCAF Pipe Band were entertained on board by the Sheffield's RM band.)
II. HMS Sheffield visits New York on 19th September 1954: as she approaches Manhattan, she fires 21-gun salute. Party is held on board for 300 underprivileged New York children invited by the British Consul General.
Alternative Title:POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - MISCELLANEOUS [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Paton, D C (person)
Rogers, R (person)
Royal Navy, Royal Marines (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Sheffield (regiment/service)
Royal Canadian Air Force (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Sheffield (regiment/service)
Keywords: ships, British naval - cruiser: Sheffield (object name)
recreation, Canadian naval - music: pipe band (object name)
society, British naval - friendship (object name)
society, Canadian air - friendship (object name)
ships, British naval - cruiser: Sheffield (object name)
ceremonies, British - customary: naval 21-gun salute (object name)
recreation, British naval - social: children's party (object name)
society, British naval - friendship (object name)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America (geography)
New York, New York, United States of America (geography)
