Motor torpedo boat crews recount battle in English Channel (1942)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)

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Shots of Motor Torpedo Boats (MTBs) along dockside, crews, working on deck, testing gun, leaving dock and taking a trip round the harbour and interviews with crew who give firs-hand accounts of battle fought against German ships in the English Channel.

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CU Man coiling rope on deck. SCU Taking machine gun from hatchway pan to men on deck. CU 2 types, pan to more. CU Pan types. SV Men towards with 2 dogs playing. SCU Hatchway opened and four men come out of it. SV 2 M.T.B's at quayside (More behind) SCU Bow of M.T.B. SCU Pan deck of M.T.B. with another boat at side of it. CU M.T.B. No. 43 past and out to harbour. LV M.T.B. at quayside pan to boat going out. CU Man climbs into gun turret, and manoeuvres guns. CU Man with guns. SCU Wake at side of ship. SV M.T.B. towards and past. SV M.T.B. towards (No. 43) and past. SV M.T.B. towards. (No. 44) SV 2 M.T.B's.

REEL 2. CU Wake. LV M.T.B. under way. SV M.T.B. at speed under way towards and past, leaving wake behind. SCU M.T.B. No. 43 past. SV M.T.B. No. 43. LV M.T.B. under way.

World War II; Second World War; MTBs; Motor Torpedo Boats
Background: Shots of Motor Torpedo Boats (MTBs) along dockside, crews, working on deck, testing gun, leaving dock and taking a trip round the harbour and interviews with crew who give firs-hand accounts of battle fought against German ships in the English Channel.

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