Title:INVASION CRAFT AND BLOCKSHIP LINE OFF SWORD BEACH - ONSHORE AN AMMUNITION DUMP BURNS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ADM 1264
Other titles:OPERATION NEPTUNE [Allocated Series Title]
Summary:
Description: I. LS pan over the French coast. MS broad on the port bow of Largs as she flashes a signal, and pan over a group of LCP(L)s lying astern of her to a Rhino ferry and anchored LSTs carrying lorries as deck cargo. MLS off the starboard quarter of a LCF(4), with other invasion craft in the background - LST, LCT, LCI(S), etc. A small coaster passes flying a barrage balloon - motor minesweeper MMS 218 in the foreground. HMS Cotswold (L.54, Force L) comes partially into frame. LSs to the coast, where a vast smoke column rises from a burning fuel/ammunition dump - the camera pans to show the extent of the smoke pall - LST, LCI(L), and USCG 56 appear in the foreground. MS of a Rhino ferry carrying lorries and a mobile crane. MSs of the blockship line, and LA.MCU of blockship 427 with three LCVPs secured alongside - a fourth craft approaches. MCUs of stern and bow junctures between blockships. Final MLS of two LBVs lying anchored together.
Alternative Title:OPERATION NEPTUNE [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Navy, Largs (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, MMS 218 (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, COTSWOLD (HMS), escort destroyer (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, LCVP 1025 (regiment/service)
Keywords: ships, British naval - destroyer: Cotswold (L.54) & [-] (object name)
ships, British naval - minesweeper, coastal: MMS 218 (object name)
ships, British auxiliary - amphibious: LSH[L] Largs (object name)
ships, British naval - amphibious: LST (object name)
ships, British naval - amphibious: LCF[4] (object name)
ships, British naval - amphibious: LCVP 1025 (object name)
ships, British civilian - cargo: blockship 324 & [expended] (object name)
ships, British civilian - cargo: blockship 426 & [expended] (object name)
ships, British civilian - cargo: blockship 427 & [expended] (object name)
destruction, British military: fuel dump (object name)
engineering, military, British - Mulberry: blockship breakwater (object name)
equipment, British military - engineering: mobile crane (object name)
01/5(4-16).1 (event)
Sword Beach, Merville, Nord, France (geography)
