MEDITERRANEAN FLEET IN MALTA
This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: ADM 1523).
Synopsis
Ships of the Mediterranean Fleet in Malta after Combined Fleet Exercises.
Shots taken from Marino Pinto onto Grand Harbour show Maltese dghaisa (dghajsa) bringing libertymen ashore; HMS Tyne in background. Libertymen step ashore, with Maltese carrozzin and services canteen in background. Two ratings get into a carrozzin. Telephoto shots of dghaisa (dghajsa) coming across harbour. Tyne's libertymen come down gangway and step into a dghaisa (dghajsa), which is then seen going across Grand Harbour with Valletta in the background. Libertymen step ashore. Ratings into the Barracca Lift entrance; leaving the Lift at the top. Barracca buildings. Ships in Grand Harbour from top of Barracca. HMY Britannia in Grand Harbour (telephoto shot). Ratings walk along Kingsway and look into shops (taken from the back of a van). Shots taken from Marino Pinto of libertymen coming ashore in dghaisa (dghajsa). Libertymen come down HMS Tyne's gangway and step into dghaisa (dghajsa) which goes across Grand Harbour. Ratings enter and leave Barracca Lift. Barracca Gardens. The Vernon Club; ratings entering and leaving.
Notes
Summary: cataloguing incomplete as the film has not been viewed - information is taken from CNI records.
Titles
- MEDITERRANEAN FLEET IN MALTA (Allocated)
- Series Title:
- POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS
Technical Data
- Year:
- 1955
Production Credits
- Production Countries:
- GB
- Sponsor
- [Admiralty]