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Title:ELEMENTS OF JOINT TASK FORCE SEVEN REPLENISH AT SEA [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ADM 1741
Other titles:POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - KOREA [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: HMS Triumph refuels and receives a casualty from USS Gurke.
Description: The escort destroyer USS Fletcher closes on cameraship HMS Triumph to come alongside for the transfer of an officer to the carrier. Cut to sequence showing a Gearing Class destroyer come alongside to refuel. Scattered shots of deck crew with aircraft tractors. A Firefly FR.1 is suspended from ship's crane as crewmen work on the undercarriage - Fireflies, Sea Otter, and Mk 47 Seafire visible in background. US carrier, possibly the USS Valley Forge, and the cruiser USS Rochester are in company with the Triumph as she approaches replenishment area. Triumph closes on port quarter of a tanker - USS Rochester (124) is refuelling on the starboard side. CU of tanker abreast of the carrier, as waves crash against the ship's bridge, throwing up a heavy spray. MLS of US carrier. Pan over tanker to Rochester as she hauls off - USS Fletcher is holding station on the cruiser's starboard quarter, ready to take her place - HMS Triumph is now taking on fuel. Cut to USS Gurke alongside - a medic carrying a rolled stretcher transfers to the destroyer - he makes the crossing crouched on a wooden platform, which is returned bearing the stretcher-case, and gently lowered onto the flight deck. The medic returns to Triumph by boatswain's chair.
Alternative Title:POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - KOREA [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Navy, Triumph (regiment/service)
United States Navy, USS ROCHESTER, heavy cruiser (1945) (regiment/service)
United States Navy & Fletcher (regiment/service)
United States Navy, USS GURKE, destroyer (1945) (regiment/service)
Keywords: ships, British naval - aircraft carrier, light: Triumph (object name)
ships, United States naval - cruiser: Rochester (object name)
ships, United States naval - destroyer: Fletcher (object name)
ships, United States naval - destroyer: Gurke (object name)
ships, United States naval - aircraft carrier, fleet: Essex Class (object name)
aircraft, British naval - combat: Fairey Firefly FR.1 (object name)
aircraft, British naval - combat: Supermarine Seafire Mk 47 (object name)
aircraft, British naval - seaplane: Supermarine Sea Otter (object name)
operations, United Nations naval - routine: replenishment at sea (object name)
operations, United Nations naval - routine: jackstay transfer (object name)
casualties, United States, wounded - battlefield: destroyer at sea (object name)
Korea (geography)