Navy Joins Western Union Fleet (1949)

Full title reads: “Penzance. Navy Joins Western Union Fleet“. Penzance, Cornwall. GV Aerial view fleet at anchor off Penzance. MV Aerial fleet at anchor off Penzance. SV Aerial shot of aircraft carrier. SV Bows of aircraft carrier. 2 other carriers in background. Ms of name on British Royal Navy vessel HMS Cleopatra. MS name on French warship ’Le Fantasque’. Angle shot of bows of aircraft carrier. SV Aircraft carrier HMS ’Theseus’. CU Name - ’Theseus’. SV Aircraft carrier ’Implacable’. SV Field Marshal Viscount Bernard Montgomery aboard Implacable saluting as he is greeted by Admiral Sir Roderick McGrigor. They shake hands. MS Royal Marines. CU Monty and McGrigor. MS Marines do rifle drill. MV Rear Admiral J J L Willinge, Dutch C-in-C arrives aboard Implacable and is greeted by McGrigor. MV Willinge inspects Marines. MV French C-in-C, Vice Admiral Lambert, arriving in launch, alongside HMS Implacable. CU pan Monty, Prince Bernhard of Holland / The Netherlands and Admiral McGrigor, Vice Admiral
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