LIFEBOAT DRILL
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Title: LIFEBOAT DRILL
Reference number: 1251
Date: 1936c
Production company: Elder Dalrymple Productions
Sound: silent
Original format: 35mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 3.12 mins
Description:
Demonstration of lifeboat drill on board the Royal Naval Lifeboat 'John Russell' at Montrose.
Teaching notes.
Shotlist: Credits (.05); Royal naval Lifeboat "John Russell" on slipway in lifeboat shed. Lifeboat mechanic answers telephone in adjoining booth and takes distress message. Send up maroons (signal flares) to alert the crew (.53); Crew run into life boat shed (1.09); They don their lifejackets, etc. and get on board (1.46); The boat is towed on undercarriage down the ramp to the water's edge and then launched (2.29); General views of the lifeboat heading out to sea. Shots of the town in the background. Lighthouse on promontory. Shot of the "stricken" cargo (?) vessel (3.12).