REAR ADMIRAL BOYD INSPECTS 'C' CLASS AA CRUISER [Allocated Title]

(1) Night firing sequence. Tracers and gunflashes from cameraship (Colony Class cruiser) - some of this film is inverted.

(2) Convoy. MLS-MS as HMS Laforey passes in line ahead with second destroyer. MLS of merchantman - in background a depth charge pattern explodes. LS off starboard beam of G/H Class destroyer.

(3) Rear Admiral D W Boyd undertakes Sunday inspection onboard a C Class (Capetown group) AA cruiser at Alexandria. After greeting the captain, Admiral Boyd inspects Royal Marine guard of honour and parties of ratings drawn up along waist deck, portside and on quarter-deck. Divine service follows the interned French battleship Lorraine lies moored in the background, an awning spread over her quarterdeck. Admiral Boyd departs in admiral's barge.

35mm