British Naval officers seated in the projection room, viewing movie and an instructor standing. Wax model of British naval warship hull being tested in a special water basin. Royal Navy architects at work. Drawings being transformed into full scale in a mould loft. Views slipway in a shipyard. A huge structure of ship is been made, men at work. Two men with a paper, discussing. Various views of the shipyard. British ship is launched in sea, views of ship in sea. Views on board the ship including boiler or engine room and other interior views.
Views of a British ship in sea, crewmen exercise on deck accompanied by band music and led by physical instructor. Activity on gun deck of the ship. sailors at work.
Antiaircraft guns mounted on British Naval ship at sea. Crewman instructing others about fire fighting. Crew members exercising emergency and damage control procedures. Views of interior Damage Control Headquarter, where crewmen refer to chart of the ship. A member of the medical staff lectures crewmen about first aid. Ship's doctor demonstrates precautions crew members can take for self-protection. Officers relaxing, off duty, singing and playing musical instruments. Sailors settling in hammocks for the night. Beginning of new day by swabbing decks.Views of engine room. (World War II period).
Firing of British warship's heavy guns. (Some crewmen sleep through it.) Nighttime firing of heavy guns. Captain (in movie about ship) addresses assembled crew on bow of ship about importance of watertight door discipline. (World War II period).
Guns mounted on deck of the battleship, USS Missouri (BB-63), anchored in Tokyo Bay. General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester A Nimitz walking on deck with other officials in preparation for signing of treaty to end war with Japan in World War II. Crew members crowd on deck. ( Note: The ship from which the action is photographed at the beginning, is the USS Buchanan, DD-484. She carried MacArthur and his entourage to the Missouri for the signing of the surrender.)
Japanese envoy and delegation board the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63). USS Missouri anchored in Tokyo Bay. Mamoru Shigemitsu, Foreign Minister of Japan, General Yoshijiro Umezu and other Japanese staff on the deck of USS Missouri. Japanese General signing the surrender document. Russian General Derevyanko, General Sir Thomas Blamey from Australia, Colonel Moore Cosgrave General Jacques P. Leclerc of France and Admiral Cel Helfrich from Netherland signs the peace treaty concluding with General MacArthur from United States.
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