AT SEA: H.M.S. Amazon the first of the new 8 frigates the Navy has been promised.
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1066045
AT SEA: H.M.S. Amazon the first of the new 8 frigates the Navy has been promised.
- Title: AT SEA: H.M.S. Amazon the first of the new 8 frigates the Navy has been promised.
- Date: 1st August 1974
- Summary: 1. LS "Amazoo" through seas. 9 ft 2. SV 3 people on bridge looking out through windows at heavy seas. 12 ft 3. SV waves breaking agaisnt bow of ship (shot though windows wiped by windscreen wiper 21 ft 4. SV men at radar screen in operations room pan to MV man round computer. 24 ft 5. MV men at computer. 25 ft 6. MV men at radar screens. 28 ft 7. CU radar screen. 30 ft 8. SV man at bar. 31 ft 9. CU TV scree??? queu??? 32 ft 10. CU TV ??? newsreader. 33 ft 11. MV pan man it bar watching TV. 36 ft 12. SV man sating meal at table in canteen. 38 ft 13. SV men collect food from counter. 40 ft 14. MV reporter on deck. 49 ft 15. LS "Amazon "through seas. 58 ft "The new two thousand five hundred ton "Amazon" an accelerate in seconds to over 35mph powered by a pair of Olympus jet engines originally developed for Concorde ... ....the force 8 gale raging in the channel was barely noticeable on the bridge.... ... the Navy has been promised 8 such frigates each costing 20 million pounds by 1977.... ... they are worried as to whether some will be axid. ...because all the men are specialised they all have to take turne, 2 months at a time ...to do the washing up." "Already down to 74 combat ships the navy insists thaer's no more room for economy three... ...they'd like to see cuts in shore based personnel and cut out shore based training establishments training men the way they used to be trained ... by going to sea." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: AT SEA
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