Minesweeping ww2

An extract from a rare film entitled 'Close-up for Action Stations!' This was made as a feature about the Royal Naval Fleet during WW2.

Narrated by Roland A Smith, this section features the recruitment of fishermen as volunteers into the Royal Naval Patrol Service. Film footage also shows the methods of sweeping enemy mines plus scenes at HMS Europa, Lowestoft, Grimsby docks and minesweeping off the southern coast of England.

See more about minesweeping and the Royal Naval Patrol Service at www.harry-tates.org.uk

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• ww2
• royalnavy
• minesweeping
• royalnavalpatrolservice
• trawler
• fishing

[sp01goat]

A wonderful and rare insight into what the men aboad minesweepers did. i am giving this link to my daughters school as she is doing a project on minesweepers.

thank you

[FSA1990]

Very interesting. I read about this in "Trawlers Go To War". A very unglamorous but vital job.

Thanks.

[philaustinutube]

I can relate a lot of this to the stories my dad, a wireless operator on the minesweepers working around Iceland and Scapa Flow, used to tell me when I was a kid. My dad was Ernest Roy Austin.

[GhostWatching]

I am fascinated by WW2, This is Great Thankyou, 5 stars *****

[pricecrack]

Any idea where i might pick a copy of this film on vhs or dvd found it very interesting had family living in Normaston drive although i lived in London would come to Oulton broad as a small boy during the war years regards jim daniel

[Pitcairn2]

Thank you for this. My late Father, George Henry Hannah, was a Skipper Lieutenant at Europa, Lowestoft, during WW2, demobbed in 1947. He instructed recruits in minesweeping techniques. This film is amazing.

[arty37]

Fist time I have seen this film. My Dad was prob. one of the sailors going to the Sparrows Nest.

Arty