Other titles:SCENES ONBOARD HMS ADAMANT [Alternative Title]
Summary: Unedited scenes onboard the submarine depot ship HMS Adamant.
Description: I. Shallow water diver, in oxygen rebreathing apparatus, stands at the stern of a submarine, which is lying alongside the depot ship HMS Adamant. He dives to inspect the propellers. Petty officer holds the safety line. The diver resurfaces.
II. MS framing the starboard side of the bridge fin of HMS Alliance, underway at sea. The gun crew emerge, and the gun is trained over the port bow. Two shots are fired, an expended case ejecting over the side.
III. Sequence showing a dental officer treating the teeth of a patient onboard HMS Adamant. CU of dental drill in operation.
IV. Interior of CB (Confidential Book) Office on Adamant. Submarine's navigational officer draws and signs for recognition signals, etc., before sailing.
V. Sequence onboard the bridge of HMS Gavinton during preparations for a sweep. Lieutenant-Commander , Captain of the Gavinton and SO flotilla, stands by compass binnacle while Lieutenant issues engine room instructions over the intercom - at the end of the sequence some humour creeps in as the Lieutenant smiles and the Captain starts to laugh. Rating chats with Petty Officer, Chief Communications Yeoman, on watch on the bridge, and gives him a cup of tea.
VI. The bridge of HMS Monkton during a sweep - a second Ton Class minesweeper holds station on Monkton's starboard quarter. The ship's Captain consults manual.
VII. Sequence onboard Monkton (?) as the sweep is armed - a crewman clips the cutter onto the sweep wire, and then removes the safety pin before heaving the cutter down the wire. The wire runs off winch drum and out through roller fairlead over the stern.
Alternative Title:SCENES ONBOARD HMS ADAMANT [Alternative Title]
Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor)
RHR Productions (Production company)
Anvil Film and Recording Group (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Navy, ADAMANT (HMS), submarine tender (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, ALLIANCE (HMS), submarine (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, GAVINTON (HMS), minesweeper (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Monkton (regiment/service)
Keywords: ships, British naval - harbour: Adamant (object name)
ships, British naval - submarine: Alliance (object name)
medical, British naval - routine: dentistry (object name)
operations [simulated], British naval - mines: clearance (object name)
