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U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tampa and life boats save many lives as Ocean liner SS Morro Castle, burns at sea.
Role of United States Coast Guards. A luxury liner, SS Morro Castle burns at sea as smoke rises from it. United States Coast Guard Cutter Tampa (WPG-48) underway to rescue the people on board the liner. A 75 foot long patrol boat underway to reach the burning vessel. Men aboard life boats. Men swim in the sea as lifeboats rescue them. Men swim towards the beach where beach patrol men save their lives. Smoke rises from the burning ship. USCG Cutter Tampa seen towing the SS Morro Castle after the disaster (but the hawser then broke and the Morro Castle drifted aground). Remains of the charred vessel aground at Asbury Park, New Jersey.
Coast Guardsmen conduct a breeches buoy drill
Coast Guardsmen in uniform wheel a beach cart containing a lyle gun and other equipment for firing a shot line to a vessel in distress. They are conducting a breeches buoy drill. They remove a lyle gun and flaking box from the cart and uncover the shot line which they place in the gun. Using a long lanyard, one guardsman fires the gun. Closeup of the shot line smoothly paying out from the flaking box. It is fired to a simulated mast (tower) on the beach. Closeup of large spools of whip line with instructions to the distressed crew about their use. After the whip line and block are set on the distressed ship's mast, the Coast Guardsmen now prepare the whip line to move large hawser line to the mast. Large spools of hawser line are seen in background. Closeup of Guardsmen pulling hawser from the spools. Guardsmen tie the hawser to the whip line for hauling aboard the distressed vessel. Closeup of the whip line pulling the hawser across the sand to the tower. Guardsmen working rapidly to accomplish this. A breeches buoy being attached to the hawser which is then propped up for elevation. View of the Breeches Buoy traveling up to the tower. A guardsmen riding the breeches buoy down from the tower. He is helped by others when he reaches the ground. Closeup of a clamp placed on the hawser to retrieve it from the vessel. The hawser being retrieved.
Australian Prime Minister Ben Chifley arrives at Gatow airport in Berlin, Germany.
Australian Prime Minister in Berlin, Germany. An Avro Lancaster XPP aircraft (a modified long-distance transport version of the Lancaster Mark X bomber) taxis to a parking place at the Gatow airport in Berlin, Germany. Australian Prime Minister Ben Chifley steps from the plane and is greeted by military officers and others including Lieutenant General Sir Edwin Otway Herbert, Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin.. Prime Minister Chifley speaks to news reporters as a photographer takes his pictures.
Vultee V-1A aircraft "Lady Peace"seen from the air at start of round trip transatlantic flight
the "Lady Peace" Vultee V-1A takes off, from the Floyd Bennett Airfield,in Queensbury,Brooklyn,New York,on round trip transatlantic flight, Plane in flight over sea and a ship underway. Aerial view of the airstrip. Aircraft flies over Long Island and then Eastward over the Atlantic Ocean.
Allied invasion fleet underway towards Normandy, France during World War II.
Allied invasion fleet on their way to Normandy, France during World War II for D-Day invasion.Views from a transport ship of various Allied amphibious invasion craft leaving British waters, en route to Normandy France during World War 2. Seen nearby are several large landing craft, each carrying troops and military vehicles, as well as 4 Higgins Boats on top. Soldiers on the transport ship look at the attack transport ship USS Joseph T. Dickman (APA-13) as it comes, abeam. On deck of the camera ship, an Army Major General points, as he converses with a Marine Colonel. Next a Destroyer Escort in camouflage paint is seen moving rapidly past the camera ship. A transport ship and various landing craft are in the background. Barrage balloons fly low over the horizon. Camera tracks the passing Destroyer Escort as it moves ahead. Drastic change of scene shows three large American Landing Craft Infantry, LCI(L) docked at Weymouth, England. (They are numbers: 487, 493,and 488.) Landing Craft, LCI (L) number 498, getting underway. View to the rear of a number of large landing craft underway in British waters behind the camera boat. Closeup of the bridge on Landing Craft, LCI(L) number 87, with officer and sailor. Large landing craft underway in loose formation with a line of barrage balloons overhead. Several troop ships in a line. A troop transport underway with a Benson Livermore class destroyer behind it. Closeup of soldiers on the deck of a ship, using a belt loader to place loose rounds into a machine gun belt. Soldiers looking over ship's railing at the ocean below. Officer with binoculars on ship's bridge, relays instructions to a sailor who passes them by radio to others. A sailor manning a fire control position on deck. He rotates it and focuses on formations of Allied aircraft in flight overhead. An 83 foot U.S. Coast Guard rescue cutter racing past a transport ship. Allied capital war ships in the convoy, viewed by sailors from the camera ship. Soldiers napping in out-of -the -way places on deck. An officer using a long pointer as he briefs Coast Guardsmen about landing craft tactics. A Coast Guard Commander leaning over a briefing board with a sailor.
U.S. Naval Fleet Review in New York City right after the end of World War II.
A motor launch approaches a gangplank at the port side of the battleship USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) during a Fleet Review on Christmas Day, 1918, in New York harbor. Her crew is formed up on her deck and she is returning her triple battery guns to their normal position, after having them turned and raised in salute. Scene shifts to the USS Texas (BB-35) as she drops her signal flags, while moving forward. Other warships can be seen behind her. Scene shifts again, to bow view of a stationary heavy cruiser belching heavy black smoke from her stack. Port-side view of a sleek two-stack cruiser. Sailors crowd the deck of a warship. A 4-stack destroyer is seen to her starboard. Sailors launch some kind of a floating device from a davit. Officers look over the ship's side at the device in the water. Officers being saluted and piped off the ship. Long pennants streaming from ship's tower. A fairly large rapidly moving boat filled with sailors.
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