Closeup of a freighter steaming past the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor. Sailors riding on a commercial bus near the entrance to the U.S. Naval Base, Norfolk, Virginia. Traffic at the road intersection. Entrance sign identifying the U.S. Navy base. Views of ships docked at the base. Flags flying outside the Headquarters of NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic (SACLANT). View of the great map room inside the headquarters. Officers from various NATO countries seated for a briefing conducted by A U.S. Navy Captain circa 1954. The most senior officers, including the first SACLANT, Admiral Lynde D. McCormick, step close to the map, where he speaks to the briefing officer. Closeup of the briefing officer moving images of aircraft over the map in the vicinity of the Portuguese Azore Islands. Closeup of straits of Gibraltar and then of Brest and Cherbourg on the coast of France; the Western approaches to the British Isles; the Norwegian coast; Iceland; Northern Labrador; the whole seaboard of Canada and the United States. View of waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Glimpse back to Admiral McCormick at the briefing map and then to a partially submerged submarine moving in water of the Atlantic. Narrator mentions subs of the 1960s. U.S. nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine launches a polaris missile. Final view of briefing map.
A cloud of smoke emerges from a sinking ship, destroyed by a German submarine torpedo, off the coast of the United States. The ship is ruptured from its center and sinking gradually. Photographer aboard a New Jersey-based Coast Guard ship captures photographs of the sinking ship, Strong waves rock the observing ship.
An shellback initiation ceremony aboard a United Stated Coast Guard liner in the Atlantic Ocean. Coast guard personnel on the deck of the ship. The sailors in trunks. The beginning of the initiation rites by experienced sailors. The sailors who are crossing the equator line the first time, go through the ceremony. One sailor is seated in a chair on a platform on the deck. Several sailors around the platform. Water is splashed on the sailors with a hose. A sailor dressed as a woman. The sailor is toppled into a pool of water by two other sailors. Few sailors dressed in different costumes sit on the deck. A high ranking seamen, dressed as King Neptune accompanied by his wife Queen Amphitrite, and the Court officiates the initiation ceremony. The coast guards lined up. The sailors portraying King Neptune and Queen Amphitrite walk past them and go on to the platform. The pollywogs, sailors who are crossing the equator first time, are locked in pillories.
Role of United States Coast Guards. A United States Coast Guard patrol boat underway in the Atlantic Ocean. It chases a rum runner on a smuggling boat. Men fire a one pounder at the boat. Coast Guards aboard a smuggling vessel.
U.S. Coast Guard activities in the Atlantic Ocean. A Coast Guard cutter underway in heavy seas. Turbulent waters.The U.S. flag and Red Cross flag hoisted on U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Cayuga.Officers and crew seated on deck under awning. Officers and Petty Officers are dressed in blue and sailors in white.A clergyman conducts religious services and leads in the singing of a hymn. A cross in front of the seating area. A few persons sit on one side of the deck. Coast Guardsmen in lifevests enter a lifeboat on davit.The lifeboat lowers away, and the crew disconnect lowering blocks and lines, and proceed to row away from the cutter.
Nazi German U boats surrender in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the United States near the end of World War 2. A German U boat U-858 underway in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape May, New Jersey, as it prepares to surrender to U.S. forces. A barrage balloon in flight. U.S. Navy escort vessels pull along side the submarine. Aircraft in flight. U.S. officers man the U boat and search for weapons aboard the submarine. German crew of the U boat lined up. Off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire another German U boat being taken over by the American crew. A U.S. sailor aboard a ship signals a blinker light. The U boat crew surrenders and disembarks. The crew being taken as prisoners to be taken to a Prisoner of War camp.
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