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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221195-08
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1943
Country: AT Sea,Atlantic,Canada
Location: At Sea,Atlantic
TC Begins: 09:49:49
TC Ends: 09:56:55
Duration: 00:07:06
Continued... Convoy at sea out of focus. Captain & senior crew of Canadian naval corvette HMCS Port Arthur introduced - officer w/ headphones for new submarine detecting device. Sailors on deck - vars shots. Gunnery drill - test shots fired - shouts of crewmen heard. Calisthenics & games on deck. Training for evacuation - “Abandon ship!” - sailors dive into sea - cutaway shots of survivors clinging to rafts in real emergency. High shot ship at sea. 09:53:51 Port scenes - fleet of U-boat hunting corvettes camouflaged - high shot shows fleet camouflaged from above. Diagram superimposed showing growth in Canadian shipbuilding & Navy enlistment. Volunteer Reserves. Diagram shows four times number of subs sunk in 1942 than 1940. Supplies loaded; maintenance work. 09:56:04 Seamen in coffee house talking to women; CU propaganda posters on wall re keeping ‘mum’. Supplies loaded onto cargo ship inc. planes, tanks. Troops & nurses board transport ship. Continued... WWII; WW2 Shipping.