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Other titles:DEFENCE AGAINST CHEMICAL WARFARE (RUSHES 1) [Allocated Title]
Summary: Naval rushes featured in assorted Admiralty productions.
Description: Engine room rating opening up a crank case in the boiler room on HMS Belfast. Opening a gear case and testing compartment for gas with safety lamp aboard the Belfast. Royal Navy boxing competitors in action, watched by Naval spectators. Night action onboard cruiser. Ratings dressed in duffle coats, helmets and anti-flash gear, loading a Bofors gun. Explosion off board. Cruiser during action alarm. Ratings wear oil-skins, helmets and anti-flash gear, double to their stations, stopping to put on their respirators. Ratings load Bofors and duck as explosion occurs in the background. Alarm rattler on ship's bulkhead. Elevated muzzles of a twin Bofors onboard cruiser. Bofors with muzzles elevated, trains right. Supplying ammunition. Destroyer's twin Bofors in action. Rating dressed in oil-skins wearing gas mask. Rating in the decontamination chamber onboard ship. Decontamination commences. Rating puts on clean anti-flash equipment before leaving decontamination chamber.
Alternative Title:DEFENCE AGAINST CHEMICAL WARFARE (RUSHES 1) [Allocated Title]
Colour:B&W
Digitised:
Object_Number:ADM 722
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:
Featured Period:1946-1975
Production Date:1950
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor)