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Title:17TH DESTROYER FLOTILLA COVERS A CONVOY OF INVASION CRAFT [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ADM 1970
Other titles:
Summary:
Description: I. English coast. LS and MLS of convoy of LCT(4)s steaming in pairs in line ahead. LS as two Hawker Typhoons fly over.
II. MS fine on the starboard bow of U/V Class destroyer riding at anchor - HMS Offa passes - US LST 370 in background - pan right over HMS Onslow to LST 344. Cut to MS broad on the starboard bow as HMS Onslaught (G.04) passes, followed by HMS Oribi (G.66). MLS of LST 370 underway off the coast, followed by a Rhino barge - barrage balloon overhead. MS as Rhino passes two small coasters. MLS off the starboard quarter of US LST 72 and Rhino - the bows of a destroyer appear at frame left. MLS pan over anchored LBVs - ML underway in the background. MS of a Rhino barge underway, and pan to MS off the starboard beam of LST 72. MLS pan over some anchored freighters to three destroyers anchored in line astern. Cut to MLS track past USCG 83 ft cutter (?) anchored offshore. MCUs and MSs as camera vessel passes to starboard of a small convoy of LBVs (including LBV 184 and LBV 5), the barges lying very low in the water. Final sequence, shot in dawn light, shows occasional gun flashes on the horizon as naval vessels bombard the French coast.
Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor)
RN Film Combat Unit No 2 (Production company)
Beeson, Paul1921-11-162001-07-19Born Hammersmith, London as Paul Antonio Charles Beeson. Died Gerrards Cross. Obituary at http://www.cinematographers.nl/PaginasDoPh/beeson.htm Accessed 11 January 2011 (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Navy, Destroyer Flotilla, 17 (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Offa (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Onslow (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, ONSLAUGHT (HMS) (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Oribi (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, LST 344 (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, LBV 184 (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, LBV 5 (regiment/service)
AP.N & LST 370 (regiment/service)
AP.N & LST 72 (regiment/service)
Keywords: ships, British naval - destroyer: Offa (object name)
ships, British naval - destroyer: Onslaught (object name)
ships, British naval - destroyer: Oribi (object name)
ships, British naval - destroyer: Onslow (object name)
ships, British naval - amphibious: LST 344 (object name)
ships, British naval - amphibious: LCT[4] (object name)
ships, British naval - amphibious: LBV 184 (object name)
ships, British naval - amphibious: LBV 5 (object name)
ships, British naval - amphibious: Rhino ferry (object name)
ships, Allied naval - amphibious: LST 370 (object name)
ships, Allied naval - amphibious: LST 72 (object name)
01/5(4-16).1 (event)
France (geography)