TRANSFER OF 45 COMMANDO FROM HMS VICTORIOUS TO HMS ALBION AT MOMBASA [Allocated Title]
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- Title: TRANSFER OF 45 COMMANDO FROM HMS VICTORIOUS TO HMS ALBION AT MOMBASA [Allocated Title]
- Film Number: ADM 3430
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- Summary: Men of 45 Commando tranship at Mombasa for the voyage home after suppressing army mutinies in East Africa.
- Description: Rather underexposed LS pan over the seafront buildings of Mombasa. The crew man ship as HMS Albion enters the harbour, and the forward elevator brings up RN band. LS of two US destroyers moored together - the nearest is USS Barry (945). The destroyer escort USS McMorris (1036) is also present. A harbour ferry passes. Cut to men of 45 Commando as they disembark from one of Albion's LCAs L 2 onto a pontoon alongside the carrier - having delivered its troops L 1 makes off. LA as a Belvedere HC.1 (XG 463, recognition letter B) lowers a Land Rover onto the flightdeck before landing on - the Land Rover is driven off. More commandos arrive on landing craft. HA onto a lighter crowded with the Ferret armoured cars of 16th/5th Lancers - a LPV piled high with baggage secures outboard of the lighter. A Ferret is lifted onto the deck by the ship's crane - while still suspended in its slings, men manoeuvre the armoured car about the deck. Wessex helicopters shuttle back and forth. Aerial sequence - HMS Victorious (R.38) has the two Belvederes aft, with Gannets, Sea Vixens and Buccaneers also parked on deck. In contrast, Albion has only a Whirlwind on deck, its engine running. The camera-aircraft passes over a line of escorts - HMS Salisbury (F.32), HMS Eskimo (F.119) and HMS Diana (D.126). LS of the two carriers with HMS Reliant lying between them - two tugs are assisting Albion to leave the line. View over the city of Mombasa. Albion passes close by Victorious as she heads out to sea.
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- Colour: Colour
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- Object_Number: ADM 3430
- Sound: Silent
- Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (ADM 3430)
- Featured Period: 1946-1975
- Production Date: 1964
- Production Country: GB
- Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations (Navy) (Production sponsor)
- Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Navy, Victorious (regiment/service) Royal Navy, ALBION (HMS), aircraft carrier (regiment/service) Royal Navy, Salisbury (regiment/service) Royal Navy, ESKIMO (HMS), destroyer (regiment/service) Royal Navy, DIANA (HMS), destroyer (1947) (regiment/service) Royal Navy, Royal Marines, 45 Commando (regiment/service) British Army, Lancers, 16/5 (regiment/service) United States Navy & Barry (regiment/service) United States Navy & McMorris (regiment/service)
- Keywords: ships, British naval - aircraft carrier, fleet: Victorious (object name) ships, British naval - amphibious: Albion (object name) ships, British naval - amphibious: LCA (object name) ships, British naval - frigate: Salisbury (F.32) (object name) ships, British naval - frigate: Eskimo (F.119) (object name) ships, British naval - destroyer: Diana (D.126) (object name) ships, United States naval - destroyer: Barry (945) & [-] (object name) ships, United States naval - frigate: McMorris (1036) & [-] (object name) aircraft, British - helicopter: Bristol Belvedere (object name) armour, British - armoured car: Ferret (object name) Kenya & Mombasa (geography)
- Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
- Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 252 ft; Running time: 7 mins
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Related IWM Collections Objects:
ADM 3410 (TRANSFER OF 45 COMMANDO FROM HMS VICTORIOUS TO HMS ALBION AT MOMBASA [Allocated Title])