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Title: 1965 PHAROS

Reference number: 3733

Date: 1965

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 15.03min

Description: Lighthouse inspection made in 1965 by the Pharos VIII. Main duties of this Northern Lighthouse Board Ship included the delivery of stores and supplies, buoyworking and the statutory inspection of the navigation aids on oil rigs in the Scottish sector. Beginning in Granton, the film records travels near Peterhead, Strathy, Kirkwall and Orkney, Cape Wrath, Stornoway and Lewis, Ushinish and Lismore.

Written on card contained inside original can "1965 - PHAROS. - GRANTON - INCHKEITH - ST ABBS HD - GIRDLENESS - PETERHEAD - RATTRAY HD - CHANONRY - STRATHY - BARROGILL KEITH'S GARDEN - KIRKWALL - HELLIAR HOLM - COPINSAY - SULE SKERRY - CAPE WRATH - STORNOWAY - BUTT OF LEWIS - TUIMPAN HD - RONA - USHINISH - SKERRYVORE - LISMORE"

The Pharos vessel featured in this film would appear to be PHAROS VIII in service 1955 - 1988. Main duties being the delivery of stores and supplies, buoyworking and the statutory inspection of the navigation aids on oil rigs in the Scottish sector. It was built in 1955 by Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Dundee (507) and based at Granton. As of 2000, it was still in service , the owners being International Maritime Resources Ltd, registered at Port of Spain.
Information from Northern Lighthouse Board website with acknowledgement made to Graeme Somner - http://www.nlb.org.uk/historical/ships.htm [last accessed 09/07/2020]

This film is part of the Northern Lighthouse Board Collection. See refs. 3720, 3725 - 3737 and 9946

Shotlist: Gv's of a marina. Dingys and yachts at anchor. (.13) Gv's of the harbour. A Texaco tanker, views as the Pharos sails out of port. (.30) L/s of a buff coloured lighthouse on a hill. (.43) C/u of buff coloured lighthouse. Lighthouse men in the courtyard. (.55) View from the lamp room. Landscape, ship at anchor in the bay. (1.05) Camera looking down on the cliffs. Birds swooping up and down. The roofs of houses. (1.24) View taken from the ship. A motor launch is bobbing in the water just off the ship. Waves are crashing on the rocks behind the launch. (1.31) View of some cliffs taken from land. (1.39) Camera filming another lighthouse man filming him. (1.43) Birds swooping around some cliffs. (1.47) Group of lighthouse men looking out to sea. (1.53) Gv's of a small white stocky lighthouse, its outbuildings, large red fuel tanks (?), and fog horn. (2.02) High stone wall harbour. Lighthouse men on the quay, one man is climbing down a ladder to the fishing trawlers below. (2.13) Tall thin white lighthouse. Camera pans along the coastline, a built up area can be seen in the distance. (2.30) Pan around the view from the lamp room of a lighthouse. A town is in the distance. Ships can be seen out to sea. (2.58) Parts of the ship decks are seen in the foreground as the camera pans around a harbour. Some houses can be seen on a hill. (3.22) Lighthouse built on a concrete block just out from a sandy beach. The camera turns to show the lighthouse men standing on the beach looking at it. (3.34) View of the lighthouse on the concrete block. (3.37) C/u of a man on deck holding a cine camera. (3.46) Gv's of lighthouse men standing in the grounds of a small white lighthouse. (4.13) View of the sea. Boat heading for a small slipway on the shore. (4.17) C/u of the lighthouse men walking along the small slipway to the motor launch. A small boy and a dog are following them. (4.28) View from a motor launch of a sandy beach, and a lighthouse on the hill above it. (4.47) Gv's of the lighthouse men walking up a hill, and of the ship at anchor in the bay. One man is sitting on the grass waiting for them. (5.13) Gv of a cliff face. (5.23) Gv of Kirkwall harbour. The ship docking at the pier. People can be seen on the quay waiting for the boat. C/u of catching the ropes to tie the ship up. (5.59) View of St Magnus Cathedral taken from the harbour. (6.07) Pan up from where the lighthouse men a re working with the motor launch at a slipway, up some steps, along the lighthouse garden wall, to the ship anchored out in the bay. (6.23) C/u of a lighthouse man outside the lamp room admiring the view. (6.34) Gv's of the lighthouse, its buildings, and the lighthouse men wandering around. (6.48) Lighthouse men coming out of a green gate, walking down some steps to the motor launch. (7.20) Gv's of the lighthouse as the ship sails away. (7.40) Gv's of the land and seascape. Part of a lighthouse building can briefly be seen. (8.10) Gv's of men and women in a garden. (9.01) Gv's of a rocky shoreline, and a lighthouse man. (9.37) Gv's of a lighthouse man walking along a path, then of the coarse grass before the shore. (9.53) Gv of motor launch sailing back to the ship. (9.58) Gv of coastline and lighthouse. (10.09) Gv of the various lighthouse men in a motor launch. (10.27) Gv of a cliff. Lighthouse can barely be seen as the ship sails close to the land. (10.37) Coastline, with a lighthouse near the shore of a flat piece of land. (10.43) Two lighthouse men on deck, as the ship sails into port. (10.51) Lighthouse man onboard running down some steps. (10.52) Gv's of the town, as the ship sails closer. (11.10) Gv's of a large red brick lighthouse, fog horn, and surrounding buildings. (11.47) Gv of the view from the water edge and up a hill. (11.59) C/u of various lighthouse men in the lamp room. (12.08) View of the cliffs from the lamp room. (12.17) Gv of the lighthouse. (12.25) View from the lamp room of another lighthouse. lighthouse men are walking on the cliff top. (12.36) View of the cliff top. (12.43) C/u of a lighthouse man looking at a map. (12.51) Gv's of a small white lighthouse, lighthouse men in the grounds. (13.08) Lighthouse men standing out on deck. Small fishing boat in the distance. (13.19) View of a lighthouse on a headland as the ship moves closer. (13.31) Slender grey lighthouse, and a view of the skerries it is built on. (13.43) A rope harness is tied around the bodies of some lighthouse men, and they each in turn climb up a ladder to a hatch in the lighthouse. Another lighthouse man helps the men in the building. (14.20) View of the motor launch held just off some rocks by many ropes attached at various points. (14.46) A white lighthouse. (15.03)

[Written on card contained inside original can "1965 - PHAROS. - GRANTON - INCHKEITH - ST ABBS HD - GIRDLENESS - PETERHEAD - RATTRAY HD - CHANONRY - STRATHY - BARROGILL KEITH'S GARDEN - KIRKWALL - HELLIAR HOLM - COPINSAY - SULE SKERRY - CAPE WRATH - STORNOWAY - BUTT OF LEWIS - TUIMPAN HD - RONA - USHINISH - SKERRYVORE - LISMORE"]