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The ‘Torpedo Boat of the Air’

Date released

11 Apr 1932

Series name

Pathe Super Gazette

Issue no

32/29

NoS ID

089811

Story no

5 / 8

Extras

1 film clip

Vicker’s "Vildebeast" successfully launches giant, 18-inch Whitehead torpedo during trials.

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Western Approaches (1944 Film, Video)

Director

Pat Jackson

Producer

Ian Dalrymple

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A story of the Atlantic convoys. Survivors of a torpedoed merchantman, adrift in a lifeboat in the Atlantic, are shadowed by a German U-boat waiting to torpedo the ship coming to their rescue. (Much of the...

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Little Ships set off for Dunkirk (1990)

Genre

Interview; News report

Seventy Little Ships which took part in the evacuation of British forces from the beaches of Dunkirk fifty years ago are to set off for the French port again this lunchtime. Coastguards say conditions are...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Rosie’s Run Ashore: interviews with officers of ships open to the public on Portsmouth Navy days, Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday (1978)

ROSIE’S RUN ASHORE [Series RADIO VICTORY ARCHIVE] Transmission on Radio Victory on Wednesday 23 August 1978 at 21.45hrs which comprises of interviews with officers of ships open to the public on Portsmouth...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Police of the Med. Torpedo Boat Patrol

Date released

14 Aug 1916

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

563

NoS ID

076357

Story no

4 / 5

Torpedo boats in harbour.

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With the French Navy. The Sting of the Wasp. Loading and Firing Torpedoes from a Submarine. (Taken by the French Naval Cinematograph Service)

Date released

10 Jan 1918

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

710

NoS ID

076995

Story no

2 / 4

Extras

1 film clip

Workmen loading torpedo onto submarine in harbour. Torpedo manoeuvred into position, hatch opens, torpedo is fired. France.

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Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: New US Torpedo Has Got Something

Date released

25 Nov 1946

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

912

NoS ID

014166

Story no

6 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: America Tests New Navy Torpedo. DESCRIPTION: In America surplus war material is used as the target for testing a new torpedo. SHOTLIST: KS Top shot of German submarine under tow by tug....

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Italian Fleet Goes on Spring Exercise

Date released

28 Jan 1932

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

138A

NoS ID

003442

Story no

2 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Italian Fleet Goes on Spring Exercise. DESCRIPTION: Torpedo-boats engage in spectacular manoeuvres at high speed in the Gulf of Taranto. SHOTLIST: Elevated shots of torpedo boats. Close...

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1st Government Tests Of Blackburn ‘Swift’ Carrier Plane On The Humber

Date released

3 Sep 1923

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

1299

NoS ID

079489

Story no

1 / 4

Extras

1 film clip

Loading torpedo, biplane, plane takes off, in flight, drops torpedo into river.

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France Launches from Her New Torpedo Boat

Date released

27 Feb 1939

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

39/17

NoS ID

096897

Story no

5 / 10

Extras

1 film clip

France’s new torpedo flotilla leader the "Maneluke".

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