OPERATION RHEOSTAT ONE - FLEET CLEARANCE DIVING TEAM AT WORK ON THE WRECK OF THE MECCA [Allocated Title]

Metadata


  • Title: OPERATION RHEOSTAT ONE - FLEET CLEARANCE DIVING TEAM AT WORK ON THE WRECK OF THE MECCA [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ADM 4756
  • Other titles: POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - SUEZ [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Divers of the Fleet Clearance Diving Team work on the wreck of the Egyptian passenger ship Mecca.
  • Description: HA.MS from the SCA launch Nada to a Gemini inflatable towing astern - a second follows under its own power. The FCDT reaches the wreck of the Mecca, and the inflatables are secured alongside. Onboard the launch the divers suit up. A USM CH-53D helicopter passes overhead, a Mk 105 magnetic mine clearance sled suspended beneath the aircraft. The divers enter the water to search the wreck for mines.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © Crown copyright. IWM (ADM 4756)
  • Featured Period: 1945-1975
  • Production Date: 1974-04
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations (Navy) (Production sponsor)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Navy, Fleet Clearance Diving Team (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: ships, British naval - smallcraft: Gemini inflatable (object name) ships, Egyptian civilian - passenger: Mecca & [wrecked] (object name) operations, British naval - mines: clearance (object name) operations, British naval - harbour: port clearance (object name) aircraft, United States - helicopter: Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion (object name) Egypt & Suez Canal (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: 105 ft; Running time: 3 mins
  • Notes: Summary: the fragment of black and white film attached to the end of this reel may show the coffer dam at Philae
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ADM 4756

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