Summary: Five newsreel episodes, four of which show various dignitaries visiting elements of the fleet.
Description: I. Visiting the Home Fleet and Edinburgh. Opening shot of Churchill and officers riding up on deck elevator of aircraft carrier. MS of ratings assembled starboard side forward on Nelson Class battleship. Admiral's barge approaches HMS Tyne. Churchill and Sir Stafford Cripps go onboard HMS King George V to be greeted by Admiral Tovey - they pose together beneath barrels of X turret. Churchill inspects ratings. Tyne. PM addresses crew from position on top of twin 4.5-inch turret. HA.MS onto destroyer crewmen (part of the escort of a recent Russian convoy) assembled at break of focsle deck. Churchill addresses them from bridge. Crewmen cheer PM. Ship's cat walks out along 4.5-inch gun barrel. MCU of PM with Rear Admiral Bonham-Carter. Churchill leaves King George V.
II. Archbishop of Canterbury, Most Reverend and Right Honourable Dr Temple, comes onboard Nelson Class battleship to be greeted by Admiral Tovey - E/F Class D in background. Archbishop is shown round - crew demonstrate multiple 2-pounder. - he poses with Fleet chaplains.
III. CU of men leaning from windows of troop train. Dignitaries wait as USAF Air Transport Command Liberator lands. Willkie deplanes and meets reception party led by Right Honourable R G Casey. Sequence showing Willkie and Admiral Harwood walking in the grounds of Harwood's residence. End aerial XLS of Queen Elizabeth Class battleship underway with destroyer astern.
IV. De Gaulle visits Free French Navy HQ, watches gun drill (twin 4-inch) onboard sloop Commandant Duboc, and, accompanied by Admiral Auboyneau, addresses crew on quarterdeck of Free French Navy ship Leopard.
V. First Lord of the Admiralty, A V Alexander, and Admiral Sir Max Horton take launch out to Maidstone Class depot ship, moored with U-Class (?) submarines alongside Alexander greets craft, inspects ratings, and addresses crew. He visits submarine, emerging onto deck from forward hatch. Alexander onboard HMS Cyclops: he greets ship's officers and inspects foreign ratings among crew. End CU of Alexander.
