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Title: HMS THORNHAM

Reference number: 4228

Date: 1980sc

Sponsor: Aberdeen University Royal Naval Unit

Production company: Group 5

Sound: mute

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 12.00 mins

Description: Shots of HMS Thornham leaving Aberdeen Harbour with a crew onboard. The ship sails away from the Harbour into the North sea. Shots of the crew and int. and ext. shots of the ship. There is a life saving exercise where a crew member has to retrieve a basket from the water. The ship then sails back into Aberdeen Harbour.

An inshore minesweeper, HMS Thornham was built in Shoreham in 1955. Converted in 1967 at Rosyth dockyard, for use by Aberdeen University Naval Unit.

See also ref 21387

Credits: camera. Ron Millar & Robert Stephen
s. Stuart Bruce
stills. Fred Mcleod

Shotlist: Shots of HMS Thornham leaving Aberdeen Harbour with a crew onboard. The ship sails away from the Harbour into the North sea. Shots of the crew and int. and ext. shots of the ship. Onboard the ship the crew receive practical instruction which included rope work, operation of the ship's rubber gemini dinghies, navigation, ship handling and other practical seamanship. The ship then sails back into Aberdeen Harbour (21.58)