Three radio operators in radio room. Radio operator works at typewriter. Officers on bridge look through binoculars. Skipper on bridge looks through binoculars. Officer gives dispatch to Captain. Skipper and Officers on bridge of the ship.
Group of ship's personnel aboard USS Saratoga as the ship prepares to cross the equator. Initiation ceremonies at Order of Shellbacks. Personnel dressed in various costumes. Several cartoons drawn on the black boards. Ship's officers and Admirals lined up in whites, watch initiation ceremonies. Initiated shell back personnel, sailors with socks on necks, oil rubbed on them, paint on faces, hair cut off.
Flag bridge of USS Saratoga as old style bi-plane fighters take off. Lighter aircraft lined up on flight deck prepares to take off. Planes take off from flight deck.
Colonel Charles Lindbergh and Captain of USS Saratoga inspect flag deck. Crew and officers in the background. Admiral H. A. Wiley, Commander in Chief of U.S. fleet and Colonel Lindbergh pose for picture. Colonel Lindbergh in the cockpit of a airplane, prepares to take off from USS Saratoga. Plane leaves the ship and is escorted by two fighter craft.
Admiral H. A. Wiley, Commander in Chief of U.S. fleet and officers on bridge of USS Saratoga. Group of fighter craft on flight deck, motors warm up, prepares to take off. Fighter aircraft lands on deck of USS Saratoga. Aircrafts take off from flight deck. Aircrafts pass over arrestor cables on flight deck. Shows obsolete type of arresting device.
In opening scene, the USS Sturgeon (SS-187) is seen underway for readiness training exercise cruise. It is followed by the USS Skipjack (SS-184) and the USS Seal (SS-183). Two more submarines follow. Glimpse of sailors on deck as a sub travels on the surface, and of the Captain with binoculars in conning tower. Crew member using a pelorus. Crew members below, in engine room. View through bulkhead opening of the U.S. Aircraft Carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3) underway to port. (This is probably during the Pacific Fleet Problem XXI, 2 April to 21 June 1940.) Next, the Saratoga is seen at some distance steaming and billowing black smoke. Several views of subs moving on the surface. Captain in conning tower orders crew to submerge, and horn sounds alarm. Crew members descending ladders to their respective stations below deck. View from below as the Captain descends securing the water-tight hatch behind him. Sailors shut down the diesel engines, open ballast valves, and begin descent. Views inside and from outside as the boat submerges. Captain looks through the periscope. Glimpse of view through the periscope. Target (for this Fleet Problem exercise) is an Iowa-class battleship. Sailor stands near two torpedo tubes loaded and ready. Captain at periscope. Torpedoes are fired and registered as two direct hits. Crew prepares to surface. View of the submarine bow during surfacing reveals it is the USS Stingray (SS-186) which was under command of Lieutenant Leon Nelson Blair, at that time. The crew is seen climbing up on deck to man their 3-inch,50 caliber deck gun. The gun being fired as the submarine makes way on the surface. Crew sitting down in their mess and them preparing their bunks. (World War II period).
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