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Coast Guard perform complete inspections of Merchant ships

Animated chart illustrates points included in annual Coast Guard inspections of Commercial ships. Coast Guard officers examine safety equipment on the deck of a merchant vessel. Seamen open safety equipment on a lifeboat, under as Coast Guard inspector looks on. Coast Guard inspector measures length of a life boat oar and checks its strength. Life jackets are examined for deterioration and date-stamped. Wartime escape hatch is inspected. Seaman demonstrates using it to exit in emergency. Marker lights are inspected. Inspectors examine the ship's Lyle gun (for firing a line during rescues) and its gun powder. Seamen empty liquid fire extinguishers so they can be re-charged. Fire-fighting nozzles are measured and fire hoses are tested. (One springs a leak at a connection.) Inspectors conduct hydrostatic tests of the ship's boilers and then inspect interior of a boiler. View of inspector climbing out of a boiler. A ship in dry dock for inspection is also inspected by the Coast Guard, at the same time. Inspectors examining ships screws and hull thickness. Inspectors deep in hull compartments of the ship. View of Certificate of Inspection being completed. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058116
Coast Guard vessels, buoys, lighthouses, helicopters and life saving service stations in the United States.

Opening scene shows an animated map of the United States and its inland waterways. An extremely long barge assembly is seen moving along a waterway, with industrial plant on shore in background. Another view of barges being pushed, View from a ship passing a city skyline. A Coast Guard ship passing an inland passenger ship in icy waters. View from bow of the Coast Guard ship moving through the ice. he U.S. Coast Guard side paddlewheel river tender, "Willow" is seen docked on the Mississippi River. Black smoke is rising from one of her funnels. A team of men works at a river bank, installing an aid to navigation. View of another such aid. A Coast Guard riverboat for installing and maintaining navigation aids, moving on a river. Closeup of a Coastguardsman wearing flotation vest, on deck. A buoy being raised by a crane on the ship. Glimpse of a buoy floating in the water. A new buoy being lowered from the ship into the water. Closeup of two Coast Guard officers watching as the buoy is set in place. View from deck of ship as the buoy is lowered overboard. Aerial view of a lighthouse. View of lighthouse from ground nearby. Glimpse of a Coast Guard station on a sandy shore. A Coast Guard boathouse with three rescue dories visible inside. A pontoon equipped Coast Guard helicopter taking off from a moving ship.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058117
U.S. Coast Guard engaged in International weather and ice patrols on the high seas

A large commercial freighter is seen beached and a long boat, containing a dozen or more Coastguardsmen, is pulling away from it. Next the men are seen running across the sand pulling a line from the ship. Closeup of two Coast Guard officers watching from ashore. . A seaman from the ship is transported via a bosun's chair to the shore. A group of Coastguardsmen weigh the taut rescue line down so the seaman can get out of the rig. View of a Coast Guard navigator at a table with a chart. A pair of dividers and a course plotter (plus his hat) are on the chart, which displays isobars. View from deck of a Coast Guard ship making way in rough seas. An anemometer rotating on the ship. Coast Guard crewman taking barometric pressure and other meteorological readings from instruments on the ship. Another, wearing a headset, monitors a real time chart being created from instruments on the ship. View from bow of Coast Guard ship engaged in International Ice Patrol, which charts and tracks icebergs to warn ships. Coast Guard crew member marking locations on a map. View of an iceberg. .

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058118
U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Russell Randolph Waesche describes mission of the Coast Guard.

The old Southern Railway Building, 13th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C., housing the U. S. Coast Guard Headquarters during World War 2. Persons are entering the building. Sign identifies the office of the Commandant. The Commandant, Russell Randolph Waesche holds a meeting in the office. Map of the world covers one wall. American and Coast Guard flags are displayed. Commandant Waesche is explaining the mission of the Coast Guard. Closeup of him speaking. Outside, on the street, a contingent of uniformed armed Coastguardsmen stands in formation. Officials reviewing a parade that includes a Coast Guard contingent. Glimpse of ships docked in a port.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058119
Amphibious vehicles land and U.S. Marines are attacked by Japanese snipers on Rendova Island, Solomon Islands.

Propaganda film 'The Price of Rendova' documents the taking of Rendova Island in the Solomon Islands during World War II. A naval task force assembles at Guadalcanal. Cargo is hoisted. Animated map shows the strategic importance of Rendova Island and that it is taken in order to facilitate operations against the air base at Munda. General MacArthur with other officers. Face of older officer. Big naval guns fire. Faces of tired and worried G.I.s. Landing crafts with soldiers are unloaded from a ship and they move towards Rendova Island. Amphibious vehicles land on the island. Troops take positions on the island. The island is covered with tall trees. Marines are attacked by Japanese snipers. The troops advance on the island. Coconut logs on the ground. The troops fire artillery. Explosions occur and smoke rises. Dead Japanese soldiers on the ground. Soldiers talk on a radio device. Signal officers wave semaphore flags to signal the troops on a beachhead. Essential materials needed for war, medical supplies and food are unloaded from a ship onto the landing crafts.

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058124
Shells, food, ammunition and fuel drums are unloaded from landing crafts on Munda, Solomon Islands during World War II.

A U.S. Naval Task Force takes Munda in the Solomon Islands during World War II. The naval task force underway at sea. Soldiers with guns on landing crafts. The soldiers move towards Munda island. They disembark from the landing crafts. Crates, shells, food, ammunition and fuel drums are unloaded from the landing crafts and are arranged. Big guns and artillery are moved into position on the island. Coconuts trees are fell by using dynamite. Artillery is fired, explosions occur and smoke rises. The material needed for war - iron, rubber, medical supplies and ammunition. Dead lying on the ground. Wounded are evacuated and carried on stretchers to battalion aid stations. The wounded are treated.

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058125