British Prime Minister Winston Churchill addresses the crew aboard HMS Prince of Wales in the Atlantic Ocean. Winston Churchill addresses the ship's crew on the deck at the end of the Atlantic Conference. He says that they have brought peace and not lost honor on the voyage. He tells the sailors that their taking part in this event will be a source of inspiration to them when the story becomes known. He wishes them the best of luck and the best of comradeship. And whatever the conditions or chances may be, the officers of the ship will always be ready to add laurels to the Royal Navy.
Views of the Submarine tender USS Antaeus (AS-21) of Atlantic convoy, at anchor in Iceland, during World War 2, with about nine submarines tied up alongside. Scene shifts to a convoy underway in the Atlantic ocean. Various kinds of transport ships seen from time to time in the convoy. The U.S. New Mexico class battleship, USS Idaho (BB-42) passes to starboard of the camera ship. Scout planes are visible on her aft section. Scene shifts to camera ship, looking aft. A gun; a lifeboat on a davit; and a Curtiss SOC-1 scout-observation airplane are visible. A sailor watches as the USS Idaho passes to starboard. More transport ships are seen, low in the water. Camera pans aft, again, showing more of the camera ship, including covered guns in barbettes; two SOC-1 scout planes; the American flag; and behind that an anti-aircraft height finder. Scene shifts forward where officers are seen on upper deck with a gun barrel above their heads.Sailors on main deck prepare to deploy a float to recover a scout plane. Sailor stands on platform using semaphore flags to transmit a message. Barrel of a large gun in the foreground.View aft of a U.S. New Orleans class cruiser underway. Feet and legs of the semaphore signalman as he stands above the platform, on rungs of the circular railing at the signal station.
Allied fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean towards Normandy, France during World War II. A signal man takes signals out of a flag bag. An LST ( Landing Ship Tank ) convoy underway with the bow of an LST in the foreground. Two officers on the deck of the LST. A man looks through a pair of binoculars. A British LCI ( Landing Craft Infantry ) underway at sea. Men on the bridge of a Coast Guard patrol boat. The flag of the U.S. flies from the mast of a patrol boat with a radar in the background. A Coast Guard officer on the bridge of the patrol boat looks through a pair of binoculars. A Task Force underway in the Atlantic with the bow of a patrol boat in the foreground. British patrol boats tied up alongside a ship with a Coast Guard cutter. The Coast Guard patrol boat and a British patrol boat tied up. A patrol boat getting underway with a cargo ship in the background. An LCVP ( Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel ) in the foreground.
A U.S. Navy blimp over a U.S. convoy underway in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. A U.S. Navy blimp inside a hangar. The pilot's cabin of the blimp. The blimp in flight over an Atlantic convoy. Interiors of blimp cabin shows a pilot and an observer. The pilot at the controls. Two bombs leave the bomb rack of the blimp. Explosions in water. The convoy underway during a sunset.
Atlantic Conference aboard USS Augusta , Atlantic Ocean. Meeting of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Prime Minister of Britain Winston Churchill. U.S. officials aboard USS Augusta awaiting the arrival of British Prime Minister. Prime Minister Churchill arrives with other dignitaries aboard the ship. They are greeted by the U.S. sailors and officials. President Roosevelt meets British officials and Churchill aboard the ship. Officials of both countries discussing amongst themselves.
Aerial view of the abandoned German tanker ship,Essberger Chemist, listing in the Atlantic off the Azores, presenting a danger to Atlantic shipping. The British Frigate, HMS Salisbury (F32), in the vicinity of the stricken tanker. The owners ask the British Navy to sink the ship. British nuclear submarine, HMS Dreadnaught, seen on the surface, after rushing to the scene, from Gibralter. She fires torpedoes that strike the Essberger Chemist. View of the derelict ship,listing to starboard and taking on water. Then the cargo of explosive chemicals ignites and smoke rises from the ship as explosions occur. Heavy black smoke billows from the stricken ship as it succumbs to the torpedoes and gunfire from the British frigate, HMS Salisbury. The Essberger Chemist slips below the water and sinks.
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