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Title:HMS LARGS AT PORTSMOUTH AND OFF SWORD BEACH [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ADM 1252
Other titles:OPERATION NEPTUNE [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Miscellaneous naval material.
Description: I. Various disconnected sequences showing Admiral Ramsay, Commander Allied Naval Expeditionary force, on tour of inspection. Rear-Admiral Talbot accompanies Ramsay onboard Largs, Force S HQ ship.
II. Largs lies alongside at Portsmouth with LCI(L)s and MLs. Various craft pass the moored vessels - FNFL La Combattante, a LCP(L), (?) BYMS ("British Yard Mine Sweeper") , LCT(4) 898, and an HDML.
III. RML 516 approaches Largs and Churchill, Smuts, Bevin, and Admiral Little, C-in-C Portsmouth, come onboard to inspect.
IV. MS of HMS Locust, HQ ship Assault Group S1, with an LCP(L) alongside.
V. Sword Beach. Rhino ferry laden with trucks heads for the shore, a LST unloads directly onto the beach. Tug manoeuvres blockship 529 into position as part of Gooseberry 5. Various shots of burning fuel/ammunition dump at Ouistreham hit by German artillery - successive explosions throw out burning fragments, and a black smoke pall rises above the site. CMP 3-ton trucks drive from LST 415 onto a waiting Rhino - LST 162 and LCT(5) 2011 in the background.
Alternative Title:OPERATION NEPTUNE [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer (person)
Smuts, Jan Christiaan (person)
Bevin, Ernest (person)
Ramsay, Bertram Home (person)
Little, Charles J C (person)
Talbot, Arthur G (person)
Royal Navy, Locust (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Largs (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, LST 415 (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, LST 162 (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, LCT4 898 (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, LCT5 2011 (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, LCIL 179 (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, LCIL 171 (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, RML 516 (regiment/service)
Free French Navy, La Combattante (regiment/service)
Keywords: ships, British naval - communications: Locust (T.28) (object name)
ships, British naval - amphibious: LST 415 (object name)
ships, British naval - amphibious: LST 162 (object name)
ships, British naval - amphibious: LCT[4] 898 (object name)
ships, British naval - amphibious: LCT[5] 2011 (object name)
ships, British naval - amphibious: LCI[L] 171 (object name)
ships, British naval - amphibious: LCI[L] 179 (object name)
ships, British naval - assistance: RML 516 (object name)
ships, British auxiliary - amphibious: Largs (object name)
ships, British civilian - cargo: blockship 529 & [expended] (object name)
ships, French naval - destroyer: La Combattante (L.19) (object name)
01/5(4-16).1 (event)
Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK (geography)
Sword Beach, Merville, Nord, France (geography)