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British Admiralty training film showing 7 fateful mistakes made aboard a mythical Navy ship

From a film named 'Ship Safety -- A Story of Seven Sailors' starts. Door of projection room in a theater. Movie starts, views of British heavy Cruiser, HMS Andromeda, crippled and burning as a result of enemy strikes at sea. British Naval officers and men seated in the projection room, viewing movie and an instructor standing. In dramatized, periodic-authentic scenes, crew members board the HMS Andromeda and settle into living and working routines. Ship in sea. Men at work in engine room, man reads book entitled "No Orchids for Miss Handish" with an attractive woman in a tight dress pictured on the cover. Crews operate 4 inch guns and antiaircraft "pom pom" guns. Ship under attack by German bomber aircraft. Crewmen fight back with ship's guns. But the 7 mistakes of crew members have fateful consequences. Ship seen taking on water after a hatch is incorrectly left open, followed by scenes flooding of interior compartments. Also scenes of fire and smoke in compartments and fire fighters at work. Contains multiple scenes of British Navy sailors and officers, and interior ship views. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, February
Duration: 28 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032933
Building a Navy ship in Great Britain during World War 2.

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.

Date: 1944, February
Duration: 5 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032934
Routine activities on board British Navy ship at sea. Physical exercise to band music

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.

Date: 1944, February
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032935
Scenes of routine activities aboard a British Naval warship at sea.

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).

Date: 1944, February
Duration: 3 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032936
Training of British Navy personnel using a training film.

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).

Date: 1944, February
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032937
British Navy training program teaches the sailors chin jab, shin stamp, knee blow as attack and counterattack methods.

British Navy training program demonstrates attack and counterattack methods of hand to hand combat and defense against an attacker. A navy officer holds the back of a chair and addresses a group of sailors about defense against the enemy. Some sailors sit on benches and some on the ground. Two sailors don gear to demonstrate different methods of attack and counterattack. They demonstrate a chin jab. One of them shows the edge of his palm and demonstrates the edge of the hand blow. He puts his foot on the foot of the opponent to show the shin stamp. He also demonstrates knee blow, boxing punch and kick. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033449