COASTAL FORCES ATTACK (RUSHES 1) [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: COASTAL FORCES ATTACK (RUSHES 1) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ADM 721
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  • Summary: Naval rushes featured in assorted Admiralty productions.
  • Description: Rating working on a boiler on HMS Kenya. Closing and lashing steam valves, and opening drain cocks in the boiler room. Opening a fuel tank. Rating removes bolts from cover plate. Ratings closing up a boiler, and closing and lashing a bulkhead valve between two boiler rooms. Turning off a cock valve. Opening a main steam valve. Exterior of a cold boiler in the boiler room on the Kenya. Petty Officer leaving open boiler door. Withdrawing a safety lamp from the engineer's storeroom on board HMS Glasgow. Demonstration of carbon monoxide gases using rats placed in a confined space. Petty Officer Stoker Mechanic (POSM) prepares to climb into a manhole to inspect a compartment. POSM hauling safety lamp through manhole. POSM and three ratings grouped around manhole with ventilating apparatus onboard the Glasgow. Ratings rigging apparatus preparing to enter a confined space.
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  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: ADM 721
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions:
  • Featured Period: 1946-1975
  • Production Date: 1950
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm
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  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ADM 721

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    ADM 722 (COASTAL FORCES ATTACK (RUSHES 2) [Allocated Title]) DRN 459 (COASTAL FORCES ATTACK [Main Title]) OBSOLETE - ADM 5098 NOW DRN 459 F 1 N 35 (COASTAL FORCES ATTACK [Main Title])
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