Newsreel item showing supply convoy from Gibraltar to Malta, Operation Harpoon.

Opening view of Gibraltar from a ship at sea. CU of the cameraman Hardy, changing lenses on his De Vry camera. LS of HMS Malaya with the AA cruiser HMS Cairo and convoy ships in the background. Captain of cameraship (HMS Liverpool ?) and officers on the bridge look skywards in anticipation of things to come. LS over the convoy. MS broad on the port bow of Malaya and pan right to HMS Eagle. Action stations is sounded and gun crew fetch 4-inch ammunition. CU of 4x2-pounder in action (on a destroyer). XLS of a ship hit by bombs. HA.MS aft down the starboard side as cruiser fires 4-inch AA. Seen through a haze of drifting gunsmoke, a distant minesweeper opens fire. CU of Hardy, now holding an Eyemo. XLS of raider in a flak-speckled sky - flak fragments fall into the sea in the foreground. Excellent view as SM 79 passes low over the cameraship - small calibre tracer is being fired at it and one engine produces a momentary slight smoke trail - the one torpedo carried operationally has not been expended. LS of HMS Argus and a distant low-level raider. High-altitude bomber goes over. Bomb explodes in the sea. Tracer is fired at another raider. A M Class destroyer fires all three turrets at enemy aircraft. Inserted shots of men reloading depth charge launchers preface a HA aft down portside of Liverpool as depth charges explode astern. Another bomb explodes amidst the convoy. CU of Hardy with De Vry camera. LS as a Sea Hurricane lands on Eagle. On cameraship a man signals with an Aldis lamp. Sequence showing escorts, including HMS Blankney (L.30), laying down smoke - the camera has shifted to a M Class destroyer which is also part of the screen, making smoke and keeping up a steady fire with main armament - answering shellfire seems to be falling around some of the other escorts, and the final shot shows the smoke pall from a stricken vessel staining the horizon - this sequence may represent the defence of the convoy against units of the Italian fleet on 15 June. After some prefacing shots of air lookouts at their posts, the action reverts to air defence, the camera having moved back to a cruiser. LS of HMS Malaya shrouded in smoke from AA. Distant Ju 88 raider. Cameraship fires 4-inch AA. LSs of raiders, bombs exploding in the sea and flak speckling the sky. Night firing by cameraship and a distant cruiser. An interlude - men wash dishes on deck and clean 4-inch guns. The action resumes - a raider is hit producing a white smoke trail - a Ju 88 (?) falls vertically into the sea. For the entry into Malta the camera is once again onboard a M Class destroyer. Final shots show the wide extent of the bomb damage in Valletta.