HMS CENTAUR RECOMMISSIONS AND SAILS FOR THE FAR EAST [Allocated Title]
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- Title: HMS CENTAUR RECOMMISSIONS AND SAILS FOR THE FAR EAST [Allocated Title]
- Film Number: ADM 1685
- Other titles: POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - MISCELLANEOUS [Allocated Series Title]
- Summary: HMS Centaur in Denmark, Portugal, Aden and other places.
- Description: I. Families Day, Portsmouth, 1 May, 1959. HA as guests arrive by launch and onboard the dockyard tug Grinder. The spectators crowd the island as the Sea Hawk FGA.6s of 801 Squadron make a mass start. Visitors watch a dive-bombing demonstration. Sea Venom FAW.21s of 891 Squadron start up. A Sea Hawk lands on. Visitors watch a shoot by the portside 40mm AA. II. Filming of Swordfish sequences for "Sink the Bismarck" while in transit to Lossiemouth. Two Swordfish take part, painted with the codes 5A and 5B to represent aircraft of 818 Squadron from HMS Ark Royal. A Swordfish makes a low pass and then lands on - the film-maker's cine camera is located behind the batsman. General flightdeck shots. The torpedo-armed 5B takes off into a dramatically cloudy sky - at the end of the shot an incongruous SAR helicopter appears in frame. 5A takes off, performs a 'bolter' or touch and go, and lands on. III. HMS Centaur in Copenhagen is visited by the King and Queen of Denmark. Royal Barge crosses the harbour to run alongside the cruiser HMS Gambia. King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid board Gambia and are greeted by Rear-Admiral R H Wright, Flag Officer Flotillas, Home Fleet. IV. Representatives from HMS Centaur and the First Destroyer Squadron lay wreaths at the 1914-1918 War Memorial in Lisbon on 31 May. LS of the memorial as band of the RAF Regiment marches past followed by men of the Household Brigade, Royal Marine and Royal Naval detachments. Captain Law arrives to lay wreath at the monument. Royal Marine trumpeters sound the salute and Guards and RM detachments present arms. The units march past Captain Law and General Gonzaga Da Silva Dominguez, Military Governor of Lisbon. Captain Law and the General shake hands. V. Aden. HA to two camels of the Aden Protectorate Levees on deck of Centaur - they have blankets put on their backs and two crewmen then mount. The camels pad off down the deck. The two now recumbent beasts are inspected by Admiral Flaherty and Captain Semmes of the US Navy. The camels are put through their paces, before Captain Law and Commander Pope try a short ride about the deck.
- Alternative Title: POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - MISCELLANEOUS [Allocated Series Title]
- Colour: B&W
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- Object_Number: ADM 1685
- Sound: Silent
- Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
- Featured Period: 1946-1975
- Production Date: 1959-05 1959-06
- Production Country: GB
- Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor)
- Personalities, Units and Organisations: Law, Horace Rochfort (person) Pope, J E (person) Flaherty (Admiral) (person) Semmes (Captain) (person) Gonzaga Da Silva Dominguez, Luis (person) Frederik IX, King of Denmark (person) Ingrid, Queen of Denmark (person) Wright, Royston H (person) Royal Navy, CENTAUR (HMS), aircraft carrier (regiment/service) Royal Navy, GAMBIA (HMS), light cruiser (regiment/service) Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm, Sqdn 801 (regiment/service) Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm, Sqdn 891 (regiment/service) Aden Protectorate Levies (regiment/service) Royal Navy, Grinder (regiment/service)
- Keywords: ships, British naval - aircraft carrier, light: Centaur (object name) ships, British naval - cruiser: Gambia & [-] (object name) ships, British naval - assistance: Grinder & [paddle] (object name) aircraft, British naval - combat: Hawker Sea Hawk (object name) aircraft, British naval - combat: De Havilland Sea Venom (object name) aircraft, British naval - combat: Fairey Swordfish (object name) animals, mammals: camel (object name) Portugal & Lisbon (geography) Yemen & Aden (geography)
- Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
- Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 1104 ft; Running time: 12 mins
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