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Filmography[edit]NIGEL  PATRICK

As an actor[edit]

Mrs Pym of Scotland Yard (1940) as Richard Loddon Spring in Park Lane (1948) as Mr. Bacon Uneasy Terms (1948) as Lucien Donnelly Noose (1948) as Bar Gorman Silent Dust (1949) as Simon Rawley The Jack of Diamonds (1949) as Alan Butler The Perfect Woman (1949) as Roger Cadevinsh Morning Departure (1950) as First Lieutenant Harry Manson Trio (1950) as Max Kealada (Segment: "Mr. Know-All") Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) as Stephen Cameron The Browning Version (1951) as Frank Hunter Young Wives' Tale (1951) as Rodney Pennant Encore (1951) as Tom Ramsay (Segment: "The Ant and the Grasshopper") Who Goes There! (1952) as Miles Cornwall The Sound Barrier (1952) as Tony Garthwaite Meet Me Tonight (1952) as Toby Cartwrigth: Ways and Means The Pickwick Papers (1952) as Mr. Jingle Grand National Night (1953) as Gerald Goates Forbidden Cargo (1954) as Insp. Michael Kenyon

The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954) as Flight Sgt. Singsby A Prize of Gold (1955) as Brian Hammell All for Mary (1955) as Capt. Clive Norton How to Murder a Rich Uncle (1957) as Henry Raintree County (1957) as Prof. Jerusalem Webster Stiles Count Five and Die (1957) as Major Julien Howard The Man Inside (1958) as Sam Carter Sapphire (1959) as Superintendent Robert Hazard The League of Gentlemen (1960) as Race The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) as Sir Edward Clarke Johnny Nobody (1961) as Father Carey The Informers (1963) as Chief Insp. John Edward Johnnoe Battle of Britain (1969) as Group Captain Hope The Virgin Soldiers (1969) as R.S.M. Raskin The Executioner (1970) as Colonel Scott Tales from the Crypt (1972) as Major William Rogers (segment 5 "Blind Alleys") The Great Waltz (1972) as Johann Strauss Sr. The Mackintosh Man (1973) as Soames-Trevelyan Silver Bears (1978) as Financial Mediator (uncredited)

Films of the Sea

Arranged in alphabetic order by title (articles 'the', 'and' and 'a' excluded) - additions, corrections, etc appreciated; please e-mail. With appreciation to all those who have already participated.

Name	Year	Details	Ships
Abandon Ship	1957	Tyrone Power, Mai Zetterling, Lloyd Nolan, Stephen Boyd, Moira Lister directed Richard Sale. After a luxury liner strikes a left-over mine and sinks, two dozen-plus passengers squeeze into a small lifeboat
Above us the waves	1955	Directed by Ralph Thomas with John Mills, John Gregson, James Robertson Justice. The attack by British midget submarines on the German battleship "Tirpitz" in a Norwegian fjord during the Second World War.	XE8 (EXPUNGER) played the unidentified X-craft
Abyss, The	1989	Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn directed by James Cameron. After a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks in a remote part of the ocean floor, a team of divers on a prototype underwater oil rig are pressed into service by the U.S. Navy in a rescue attempt.
Action in the North Atlantic	1943	Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, war time merchant marine. Begins with a tanker being torpedoed; survivors are saved after 11 days adrift at sea, and return home. But soon, the men are called back into action with a new assignment.
Action in the North Atlantic (US)	1943	127 mins, Said action taking place aboard a merchantman during the battle of the Atlantic. With Raymond Massey, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Hale. Dir Lloyd Bacon
Adrift	1993	Made-for-TV imitation of Dead Calm, with Kate Jackson.
Adventure	1945	Clark Gable, Greer Garson, Joan Blondel. Womanising sailor meets his match when he falls in love with a librarian.
African Queen, The	1951	The classic Bogart - Hepburn vehicle. Based on the novel by C.S. Forester (of Hornblower fame), directed by John Huston.
Against All Flags	1952	Errol Flynn, Maureen O'Hara, Anthony Quinn. Set in the 1700s, Royal Navy versus the pirate republic in Madagascar.
Aguinaldo's Navy	1900	US b/w silent documentary showing a large number of curious Filipino boats being worked on the Pasig River near Manila by natives. The picture is unusually fine photographically.
Aliki sto Naftiko, I	1961	...aka Alice in the Navy 1961 USA
All Hands (GB)	1940	12 mins, Government-produced short on the theme of 'Careless talk costs lives' or in this case, a war- ship and its crew. With John Mills, Leueen McGrath. Dir John Paddy Carstairs
American Navy in Vietnam, The	1967	Documentary (Chet Huntley) survey of the activities of the United States Navy leading up to and during the first years of the American war in Vietnam. Footage of American warships during the controversial Gulf of Tonkin incident, which triggered American military action in Vietnam, is shown, as well as depictions of the landing of U.S. Marines on the beaches at Da Nang and Chu Lai. Naval advisors training South Vietnamese military personnel and Seabee construction units building military facilities and hospitals are also seen.
Amistad	1997	Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou, directed by Steven Spielberg. Based on actual events in 1838, AMISTAD is the story of captured African slaves who took over their transport ship in a bloody revolt with the hopes of returning back to their homeland.	The Californian
Annapolis Farewell	1935	...aka Gentlemen of the Navy 1935 UK
Anything to Survive	1990	Made-for-TV. Based on the Elmo Wortman book Almost Too Late. A true story of a man and his three children shipwrecked while winter sailing in southeastern Alaska.
Assault on a Queen	1966	Crooks dredge up a submarine and use it hijack the Queen Mary. Frank Sinatra
Away all boats	1956	clasic about an attack transport. Jeff Chandler, George Nader, Julie Adams, Lex Barker, Keith Andes directed Joseph Pevney. A hard-boiled U.S. Navy captain struggles to whip his men into shape before they experience the rigors of WWII combat aboard a navy transport in the Pacific.	a BAYFIELD class APA played the USS BELINDA
Battle of the Japan Sea	1969	Japanese film Nihonkai daikaisen directed by Seiji Maruyama. Russo-Japanese war.
Battle of the River Plate		[also known as Pursuit of the Graf Spee""]"	USS SALEM was GRAF SPEE but the number of turrets forward was a glaring innacuracy; HMS CUMBERLAND (broken up in Newport in 1959) and HMS ACHILLES (by that time a unit of the Indian Navy, INS DELHI), JAMAICA was the EXETER, SHEFFIELD (town class played the AJAX, RFA OLNA was the ALTMARK, RFA FORT DUQUESNE was the TACOMA and some of the onboard scenes were shot on the BIRMINGHAM. The film Battle of the River Plate was actually shot in the Eastern
Battleship Potempkin	1925	Classic account of the mutiny at Odessa during the 1905 Russian revolution.	hulked battleship Dvienadstat Apostolov (The Twelve Apostles) was rebuilt to resemble the Kniaz Potemkin-Tavricheski
Bedford Incident	1965	Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur, Martin Balsam, Wally Cox directed James B. Harris. At the peak of Cold War tensions, a U.S. naval ship discovers a Soviet submarine in the North Atlantic and proceeds to scrutinize its every move.	probably the USS WILLIAM V PLATT playing the BEDFORD
Beneeth the twelve mile reef	1954	Robert Wagner; sponge divers with Gilbert Rowland and Terry Moore
Bequest to the Nation, A	1973	Directed by James Cellan Jones with Glenda Jackson and Peter Finch in a Lord Nelson a Lady Hamilton sage involving the French and Spanish navies.
Big Monitor Miantonomah Leaving the Navy Yard	1898	US, B&W, silent documentary	Miantonomah as herself
Big Sky, The	1952	Directed by Howard Hawks, with Kirk Douglas, fur trappers, Indians and river rapids	keelboat replica MANDAN was built in the early 1950s
Big Wednesday	1978	Directed by John Milius with Jan-Michael Vincent, William Katt, Gary Busey; spectacular surfing, California
Billy Budd	1962	English. Black and white. Written, directed, produced, and starring Peter Ustinov. Based on the Herman Melville novel, the story chronicles the harsh, brutal conditions in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic wars. This film which was made at the now legendary, Allied Artists Studios is nothing short of a masterpiece. Filmed totally on board a reconstructed Man O'War, it features tremendous performances by Peter Ustinov, Terrance Stamp, Melvin Douglas and the performance of a lifetime by Robert Ryan (as Klaggart, the very human manifestation of evil)
Black Swan, The	1942	Pirate epic with Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara
Blackbeard the Pirate	1952	Robert Newton, William Bendix and Linda Darnell. Henry Morgan vs Blackbeard.
Blood Alley	1955	Directed by William A. Wellman and John Wayne, with John Wayne and Lauren Bacall. A merchant marine captain, rescued from the Chinese Communists by local visitors, is "shanghaied" into transporting the whole village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer. An exciting voyage down the muddy, misty Chinese coast in a rickety steamboat only larger than the African Queen by a factor of CinemaScope, a hop, skip and a jump ahead of one mammoth Red frigate.
Blood Ship, The		Cecil B. DeMille	INDIANA and BOHEMIA
Blood Ship, The	1927	Directed by George B. Seitz, with Hobart Bosworth, Jacqueline Logan, Richard Arlen (Produced Cecil B. DeMille?)	INDIANA and BOHEMIA
Blue Peter, The	1954	...aka Navy Heroes 1954 USA
Boatniks, The	1970	An accident prone coastguard officer wreaks havoc in this Disney comedy with Phil Silvers
Bon voyage	1962	Directed by James Nielson with Fred MacMurray and Jane Wyman family takes a trip to France.	SS United States
Boston Navy Yard	1898	A comprehensive view of the immense government works in the Boston navy yard; taken from a passing tug.
Botany Bay	1953	Alan Ladd, James Mason, directed by John Farrow. Based on the Hall and Nordhoff book.
Bridges at Toko Ri	1955	Directed by Marc Robson, with Grace Kelly, William Holden,	USS ORISKANY played the USS SAVO ISLAND and the unidentified destroyer was the USS PUTNAM
Britannic	2000	Made for TV. Directed Brian Trenchard-Smith, with Edward Atterton and Jacqueline Bisset; an account of the sinking of the H.M.H.S. Britannic off the greek island of Kea in November 1916. This explores the theory of a German agent sabotaging the liner, a hospital ship
Brown on Resolution/Sailor of the King/Singlehanded	1953	Remake of "Forever England"	DIDO/Modified DIDO cruisers
Buccaneer's Girl, The	1950	Pirate adventure/comedy.
Buccaneer, The [Jean Lafitte]	1938	Cecil B. DeMille directed Anthony Quinn, based on the novel by Lyle Saxon
C.Q.D.; or, Saved by Wireless; a True Story of the Wreck ofthe Republic	1909	b/w, silent, with Lillian Walker
Cabin Boy	1994	Chris Elliott, Ritch Brinkley, James Gammon. Written by Chris Elliott.
Caine Mutiny, The	1954	Problemas among th officers of a destroyer come to a head when the captain panics during a typhoon. Humphrey Bogart stars.
Canada's Navy	1962	Documentary, 30 minutes, written and directed by Kirk Jones
Cappy Ricks	1921	B&W silent, directed byTom Forman, with Thomas Meighan and Charles S. Abbe	Maine-built five-masted schooner COURTNEY C. HOUCK
Captain Blood	1935	Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone. Based on the Rafael Sabatini novel, it borrows heavily from the Henry Morgan legend.
Captain Blood Son of	1962	Son of Captain Blood. Italian version, starring Errol Flynn's 21-year-old son Sean, as the son of Captain Blood.
Captain Blood, Fortunes	1950	Fortunes of Captain Blood. Louis Hayward
Captain Blood, Fugitive	1952	Louis Hayward
Captain Blood, Le Capitan	1960	Le Capitan. A French version
Captain Horatio Hornblower			Italian brigantine MARCEL B. SURDO
Captain Horatio Hornblower	1951	Gregory Peck in the title role, with Virginia Mayo as the love interest. Based on the novel by C. S. Forester. Directed by Raoul Walsh.	Italian brigantine MARCEL B. SURDO
Captain January		Shirley Temple, a very young Buddy Ebsen
Captain Kidd	1945	Charles Laughton in the title role, with Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, and John Carradine. Historically inaccurate account of Capt. Kidd.
Captain Kidd	1952	Abbott & Costello Meet Captain Kidd. Charles Laughton reprising his role as Capt Kidd
Captain Ron	1992	Kurt Russell, Martin Short and Mary Kay Place
Captain Salvation	1925	1927?, directed by John Robertson, B&W silent with Lars Hanson and Marceline Day	full-rigged ship SANTA CLARA
Captains Courageous	1937	Rudyard Kipling's classic with Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore, Freddie Bartholomew, Mickey Rooney, Melvyn Douglas and John Carradine. Filmed using real Gloucester fishing scooners	fishing schooners
Casabianca	1951	Captain L'Herminier's WWII submarine, near documentary by Georges Péclet. Also known as Pirate Submarine (1952) (USA)	Casabianca
Case of the United States Navy Adventure, The	1997	Video directed by Michael Kruzan with Mary-Kate Olsen and Asley Olsen. Olsen twins mystery.
Casey of the Coast Guard	1926	Pathé serial Silent
Casey of the Coast Guard	1926	Pathé serial Silent
Chesty Anderson, USN	1976	...aka Anderson's Angels 1976 ...aka Chesty Anderson, US Navy 1976
Christopher Columbus	1949	Fredric March in the title role.
Christopher Columbus	1985	Made-for-TV. Gabriel Byrne as Columbus, with Faye Dunaway, Oliver Reed, Eli Wallach, and Max Von Sydow.
Christopher Columbus	1992	The Discovery. Two versions made for the quincentennial.
Coast of skeletons	1964	Directed by Robert Lynn with Dale Robertson and Richard Todd, back as Harry Sanders in another African adventure.	wreck of the DUNEDIN STAR
Combat Seals	1991	video ...aka Navy SEALs 1991 V
Command Approved	2000	...aka Action Stations! 2000 UK: promotional title
Convoy (GB)	1940	90 mins, Mostly studio-shot account of an escort vessel and its encounter with a German pocket battleship. With Clive Brook, John Clements, Michael Wilding. Dir Pen Tennyson
Corvette 225	1943	Also known as The Nelson Touch (UK), B/W, Directed Richard Rosson, with Randolph Scott, James Brown. World War II era submarine warfare movies made during the war. Gritty movie that gives a good depiction of the absolutely vital Battle of the Atlantic and the crucial role convoy escorts played in winning the war.
Corvette K-225 (aka The Nelson Touch) (US)	1943	95 mins, The story of a Canadian corvette: its launching and its first Atlantic convoy. With Randolph Scott, James Brown, Ella Raines. Dir Richard Rosson
Crash Dive	1943	A U.S. submarine fights the Germans in the Atlantic, while its commander (Dana Andrews) and a lieutenant (Tyrone Power) romance the same woman (Anne Baxter). Won an Academy Award for special effects
Crimson Pirate, The	1952	Burt Lancaster and Nick Cravat. Burt does a very good Errol Flynn.	Italian brigantine MARCEL B. SURDO
Crimson Tide	1995	Thriller about the fictional ballistic missile submarine Alabama during a crisis in the post-Cold War Russian Far East. A dispute over the meaning of a partially recovered flash message - does it order a missile launch? - leads the XO (Denzel Washington) to mutiny against his captain (Gene Hackman)
Cruel Sea, The	1953	Directed by Charles Frend, from Nicolas Montserrat, with Jack Hawkins and Donald Sinden. At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike back. Traumatic events afloat and ashore create a warm bond between the skipper and his first officer. Good sea footage.	corvette COREOPSIS ex Greek KRIEZIS played COMPASS ROSE, PORTCHESTER CASTLE played SALTASH CASTLE
Cutthroat Island	1995	Geena Davis, Matthew Modine and Frank Langella.
Damn the Defiant!	1962	Alec Guiness, Dirk Bogarde. Napoleonic era naval saga.
Dan mornarice	1952	...aka Navy Day 1952 International: English title
Das Boot	1981	Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer, directed by Wolfgang Petersen. In the middle of WWII, the tide turns against the Axis, a German U-boat crew is sent out to patrol the Atlantic and fire at Allied ships bringing supplies to England.
Das Boot	1981	Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer, directed by Wolfgang Petersen. In the middle of WWII, the tide turns against the Axis, a German U-boat crew is sent out to patrol the Atlantic and fire at Allied ships bringing supplies to England.
Dead Calm	1989	Nicole Kidman and a 60' ketch. With Sam Neill, too.
Deep Six, The	1958	Directed by Rudolph Maté with Alan Ladd - routine WWII - the cast is good, especially the always under-appreciated Dianne Foster in a thankless role, and the dialogue is crisp.	USS STEPHEN POTTER was the USS POE
Desperate Journey: The Allison Wilcox story	1993	Made-for-TV. Mel Harris, John Schneider.
Destination Tokyo	1944	Cary Grant stars in this classic wartime adventure about a U.S. submarine on a secret mission to enter Tokyo bay and gather information for the Doolittle air raid against Japan.
Destroyer	1943	Directed by William A. Seiter with Edward G. Robinson and Glenn Ford. Edward G. is a retired Navy officer who works on building a new ship. He succeeds in getting a berth when she is ready to sail but he finds he is a bit out of touch with the young crew.
Destroyer (US)	1943	99 mins, Melodrama about the generation gap among the crew of a US destroyer. With Edward G Robinson, Glenn Ford, Edgar Buchanan. Dir William Seiter
Devil and the Deep	1930s	Submarine adventure
Devil's Triangle, The
Divers at Work on the Wreck of the 'Maine'	1898	US documentary, b/w, silent
Don Winslow of the Navy	1941
Dove, The	1974	Based on Robin Graham's true story of sailing alone around the world.
Down periscope	1996	Slapstick comedy about a crew of misfits on board the old diesel submarine Stingray, which is competing against a modern nuclear submarine in a wargame. Stars Kelsey Grammer as Stingray's ambitious captain.	USS PAMPANITO
Down to the Sea in Ships		2? Versions
Duke of the Navy	1942
Emden	1926	The Emelka Film Company. Hellmuth von Müller's commerce raider attacking HMAS Sydney 1914, silent with some real footage. von Mücke, 1st Lieutenant and advisor for the film. Alternate title "Exploits of the Emden". (R.K. Lochner, Die Kaperfahrten des Kleinen Kreuzers EMDEN)	Emden
Endless Summer
Enemy Below, The	1957	Robert Mitchum and Curt Jürgens star in this story about the pursuit of a wily German U-boat by a U.S. destroyer during World War II. Won an Academy Award for special effects.	USS STRAUB was the USS HAMES
Ensign Pulver		the sequel to "Mr. Roberts"
Eric the Viking	1989	Written, Directed, and starring Terry Jones. Also starring Tim Robbins, John Cleese
Eskimo		MGM	Nanuk
Eternal Sea, The	1955	b/w Sterling Hayden as Rear-Adm. John Madison Hoskins who lost his leg in sinking of USS Princeton 1945, and went on to become Captain of the next USS Princeton in 1946, Alexis Smith as Sue Hoskins and Dean Jagger as Vice-Adm. Thomas L. Semple, directed by John H. Auer	filmed on board the USS Kearsarge (CVA 33) while on a Show The Flag cruise around Asia
Eyes of the Navy	1940
Fair Wind to Java	1952	A sailor with a mutinous crew seeks a south seas treasure. Fred MacMurray(?) as a yankee clipper captain, stealing diamonds from a Hindu shrine and ending with the Krakatoa eruption and a tsunami	Tops'l Schooner Caribee
Farewell My Lovely		raymond Chandler (Film or TV?)	SS Catalina
Fighting Coast Guard, the		John Wayne,
Fighting Coastguard, The	1951	With Brian Donlevy, Forrest Tucker, Ella Rains. Directed by Joe Kane. US 86 mins
Fighting Lady, The	1944	documentary, including wing-camera footage of the Mariana's Turkey Shoot	USS YORKTOWN, USS TICONDEROGA
Fighting Seabees, The	1944	Directed by Edward Ludwig; with John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, Paul Fix, William Frawley
Final Countdown, The			USS NIMITZ played herself
Flådens friske fyre	1965	...aka It's Nifty in the Navy 1965 International: English title
Flat top	1952	Sterling Hayden, Richard Carlson, Keith Larson, Bill Phipps, John Bromfield directed by Lesley Selander. A steel-nerved skipper (Hayden) trains Navy Carrier Pilots during the Second World War while battling the kind commander of another group new to the carrier
Flollow the Fleet	1936	Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard, Astrid Allwyn directed Mark Sandrich. When he is rejected by his lady love, a song-and-dance man enlists in the navy.
Flottans kavaljerer	1948	...aka Cavalliers of the Navy 1948 International: English title
Flying Missile	1950	Glenn Ford stars as a naval commander who develops the means to launch missiles from submarines.
Flådens friske fyre	1965	...aka It's Nifty in the Navy 1965 International: English title
For Those in Peril (GB)	1944	67 mins, Tribute to the Air-Sea Rescue Service, patrolling the Channel and the North Sea in high speed launches, picking up downed airmen. With David Farrar, Ralph Michael, Robert Wyndham. Dir Charles Crichton
For Your Eyes Only			QUEEN ELIZABETH
Forever England	1934	Based on Forester's Brown on Resolution qv.	CURACOA plays ZIETHEN, destroyer BROKE played the RUTLAND (CHARYBDIS in novel but RUTLAND in the film), battlecruiser LEOPARD was played by a LEANDER class cruiser
Francis in the Navy	1955
French Line	50s	Rosalind Russell and Marylin Monroe	Liberté
French Line	50s	Rosalind Russell and Marylin Monroe	Liberté
Frenchman's Creek	1998		PHOENIX, originally a schooner built in Denmark in 1929
Further Up The Creek	1958	English b/w comedy directed by Val Guest with David Tomlinson and Frankie Howerd.
G.I. Jane	1997
Gallant Hours, The			A real later USN cargo ship played the role of USS ARGONNE
Gangway for Navy	1951
Gift Horse, The		the story (near documentary) of HMS Campbeltown blowing the main dock gate at St Nazaire in 1942	HMS LEAMINGTON ex Russian ZHGUCHI formerly the USS TWIGGS was restored for this film from the scrap heap and played the part of the BALLANTRAE ex USS WHITTIER
Girl, a Guy, and a Gob, A	1941	...aka Navy Steps Out, The 1941 UK
Glencannon	50s	US TV series	INCHCLIFFE CASTLE
Godfather 2			four-masted bark MOSHULU, schooner PIONEER
Great Impostor, The	1961	Tony Curtis, Edmund O'Brien, Arthur O'Connell, Larry Gates, Raymond Massey, Karl Malden. Ferdinand Demara Jr., and his amazing career of successfully posing as a U.S. Army officer, a Navy dental surgeon, a prison warden, and several other things which he was not.	Cayuga played by HMCS Athabaskan, plus HMCS Ste Therese
Grey Lady Down	1978	The Navy seeks to rescue the crew of USS Neptune, which sank off the coast of Connecticut after a collision. Stars Charlton Heston, Stacy Keach, Ned Beatty, and David Carradine.
Guns of Navarone		Anthony Quinn,	German E-boat in Guns of Navarone was a British 72 foot HDML (Harbour Defence Motor Launch)
Halifax Explosion
Hawaii		Julie Andrews, Max Von Sydow	WANDIA and GRETHE
Hawaiians, The			Baltic Trader posed as both the Thetis and the whaler Cathagian
He's in the Navy	1940
Hell below	1933	MGM, starring Walter Houston, William Bendix, Jimmy Durante, Sterling Hollaway, Robert Montgomery,	USS MOODY
Hellcats of the Navy	1957	Based on Admiral Charles Lockwood's book Hellcats of the Sea, this is a fictionalized account of the submarine attack group that entered the Sea of Japan in 1945 to ravage Japanese shipping. This film is the only one in which Ronald and future wife Nancy Davis appeared together.
Hellship Bronson
Here Come the Navy Bands	1945
Here comes the Navy	1934	Directed by Lloyd Bacon with James Cagney and Pat O'Brien. To continue a grudge with naval officer Biff Martin, feisty construction worker Chesty O'Connor joins the navy and manages to get stationed on the same ship as Martin. Further complications arise when O'Connor starts dating Martin's sister, whom he meets while on shore leave.	USS Arizona played herself, also USS Macon
Here Comes the Navy	1934
High wind in Jamaica, A	1965	Anthony Quinn and James Coburn in a tale of the last days of Caribbean piracy based on the 1929 novel "The Innocent Voyage." Ship named CLORINDA in the film	CRUZ DEL SUR (built La Comba, Valencia, 1947 as a fore-and-aft schooner on the lines of the Portuguese Grand Bankers) and Mike Burke's CARIBEE
His Majesty O'Keefe	1953	Burt Lancaster. Based on a true story.
Hold 'Em Navy	1937	...aka That Navy Spirit 1937 UK
Holiday of a Lifetime	1954	Cape Town to UK aboard the Union Castle Liner	Rhodesia Castle
Hooligan Navy
Hostile Waters	1997	For TV - Martin Sheen, Max Von Sydow. Account about the accidental sinking of a Soviet nuclear submarine off the coast of Bermuda in 1986, based on the 1996 book of the same name.
Hot Pursuit
Hot Yachts Cold Water
Hunley, The	1999	Made for TV. True story of the Confederate submarine Hunley, which became the first sub to sink a ship when it destroyed USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor in 1863.
Hunt for Red October	1990	Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin. Screen adaptation of the Tom Clancy thriller, starring Alec Baldwin as a U.S. intelligence agent tracking the maiden voyage of the new, secret Soviet submarine Red October. Sean Connery is the Soviet sub commander, who is up to something .... Oscar winner for sound effects editing.	USS DALLAS, ENTERPRISE and GARY
I Sailed to Tahiti With an All-Girl Crew.	1968	comedy with Gardner McKay of Adventures in Paradise fame.
Ice Station Zebra	1968	Based on novel by Alistair MacLean, music by Michel Legrand, directed by John Sturges with Rock Hudson as Cdr. James Ferraday: Captain of USS Tigerfish, Ernest Borgnine as Boris Vaslov, Patrick McGoohan as David Jones	USS RONQUIL (exterior shots) and USS BLACKFIN (deck shots)
Il Lupo dei mari	1975	see Wolf Larsen
Imperial Navy	1981
In harm's way	1965	b/w directed by Otto Preminger with John Wayne and Kirk Douglas and more stars. Captain Rockwell Torrey and Commander Paul Eddington are part of the Navy's effort to recuperate from, and retaliate for, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Torrey is romantically involved with nurse Maggie Haynes, and also tries to restore his relationship with his estranged son, Jeremiah, a young Naval officer.
In Harm's Way (US)	1965	165 mins, Adaptation of a thousand-page best-seller (by James Bassett) full of sub-plots and subsidiary characters, covering the war in the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to the battle of the Coral Sea. Filmed partly aboard the cruiser USS St Paul. With John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal. Dir Otto Preminger
In the Navy	1941	aka Abbott and Costello In the Navy 1941
In Which We Serve	1942	Directed by Noel Coward and David Lean with John Mills. In Which We Serve is a stunning and emotional piece of film making. Coward and David Lean sympathetically directed this thinly veiled account of Lord Montbatten's sea battle during WWII. Coward himself played the Montbatten role (renamed, Kinross for the film.), and turned in a sincere and 3 dimenional portrait. For those of you used to seeing Noel only in high comedy, this film is a revelation. Strong support is also given by Sir John Mills and Joyce Carey. Sir Noel won a special oscar for the screenplay.	HMAS NEPAL was the fleet destroyer used in the at sea sequences
In Which We Serve (GB)	1942	114 mins, As they await rescue, the survivors of a destroyer dive-bombed and sunk during the battle of Crete think back on their lives in the navy. Said to be based on the experiences of Admiral Lord Mountbatten and his ship HMS Kelly. With Noel Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles. Dir Noel Coward/David Lean
Inferno at the Morro Castle
Ismail Yassine fil ustul	1958	...aka Ismail Yassine in the Navy 1958 International: English title
Jason and the Argonauts	1963	The film version of the legend of the golden fleece. With Todd Armstrong and Nancy Kovak. Special effects by Ray Harryhausen.
Jean Lafitte	1958	Produced by Cecil B. DeMille, directed by Anthony Quinn, based on the novel by Lyle Saxon
Jerry Saves the Navy	1917
John Paul Jones	1958	Robert Stack as the short, slight, sandyhaired Scotsman? Oh well. Bette Davis, Peter Cushing and Mia Farrow. Directed by John Villiers Farrow (Mia's father and Alan Villiers cousin), the production manager was Emmett Emerson and the producer was Sam Bronston.	Italian brigantines MARCEL B. SURDO built 1915 and the ANGIOLINA H built 1904. These were located at Trapani, converted at Fiumicino, and were sailed to Denia, Alicante, Spain (all by Villiers - see "Give Me a Ship to Sail").
Johnny Frenchman (GB)	1945	112 mins, Cornish and Breton fisher folk, bitter rivals in peacetime, join forces to fight the Nazis. With Tom Walls, Francoise Rosay, Ralph Michael. Dir Charles Frend
Josser Joins the Navy	1932
Juggernaut	1974
K225			HMCS Kitchener
Kaikoku danji	1926	...aka Boy from the Navy, The 1926 ...aka Boy of the Sea, The 1926 ...aka Children of the Sea 1926 USA
Key, The		William Holden, Sophia Loren and Trevor Howard	HM tug RESTIVE was variously painted to represent three different WWII rescue tugs
Kidnapped!	1917	silent
Kidnapped!	1938	Freddie Bartholomew, John Carradine
Kidnapped!	1948	Roddy McDowell, Dan O'Herlihy
Kidnapped!	1971	Michael Caine, Trevor Howard
Kidnapped!	1978	Made-for-TV (German)
King's Pirate, The	1967	Remake ofAgainst All Flags Doug McClure, Jill St. John.
Krakatoa, East of Java	1969	August 1833 the SS Batavia Queen and her crew get caught up in one of the world's greatest volcanic eruptions with Maximilian Schell, Diane Baker, Brian Keith and Barbara Werle.
La Terra Trema	1948	Salvo Angelo for Universalia, mediterranean fishermen, village of catania, Sicily,
Lady From Shanghai, The	1948	Film noir. Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles and a fateful yacht trip. Filmed aboard Erroll Flynn's Yacht Zaca. Directed by Orson Welles.
Last Voyage of Sinbad, The			SANTA MARIA replica built in 1951 for a floating display at Barcelona
Last Voyage, The	1960	Robert Stack, Dorothy malone, Edmond O'Brien, George Sanders, Woody Strode, Jack Kruschen	SS Ile de France (officially SS Furansu Maru) was publicly mutilated as the SS Claridon (Titanic?)
Last Voyage, the	1960	Robert Stack, Dorothy malone, Edmond O'Brien, George Sanders, Woody Strode, Jack Kruschen	SS Ile de France (officially SS Furansu Maru) was publicly mutilated as the SS Claridon
Lawrence of Arabia		background shot of a Suez Canal passage	Blue Funnel's "M" Class MELAMPUS (1960)
Les amamnts de Brasmort		Marcel Pagliero, canals of NE France
Let's Go Navy!	1951
Lifeboat	1944	An extraordinary tale of survival at sea in a small boat. Written by John Steinbeck, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak and Hume Cronyn.
Long Ships, The		Richard Widmark
Long Ships, The	1963	Viking saga with Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier.
Long Voyage Home, The	1940	John Ford directed John Wayne and Barry Fitzgerald in Eugene O'Neill story. Merchant seamen on shore leave get drunk and have adventures. Brilliant photography by Greg Toland.
Lord Jim		Peter O'toole
Lost!	1986	Made-for-TV, true story of catamaran capsize.
Luck of the Navy, The	1927
Lucky Lady	1975	Comedy with Burt Reynolds, Gene Hackman, Liza Minelli, Robbie Benson and a yawl named Lucky Lady. Prohibition rumrunners.
Luke Joins the Navy	1916
Maggie, The	1954	William Mackendrick at Ealing Studios, Clyde, Crinnan Canal, Western Isles,	Scottish puffer Maggie
Maitre après Dieu	1950	Louis Daquin, Jewish refugees from Hamburg 1938, supervised by Jan de Hartog from his book
Maitre après Dieu	1950	Louis Daquin, Jewish refugees from Hamburg 1938, supervised by Jan de Hartog from his book
Man of Aran	1934	Colman 'Tiger' King, Maggie Dirrane, Michael Dillane, Pat Mullin, Patch 'Red Beard' Ruadh directed by Robert Flaherty This ethnographic film is an anthropological study of the Aran Islands and its native inhabitants. On the west coast of Ireland, the indigenous people battle mother nature simply to secure a modest living for themselves and their families
Man who never was, The	1956	Stephen Boyd, Clifton Webb, Robert Flemyng, Gloria Grahame, directed by Ronald Neame A spy thriller about a WWII British spy trying to fool the Nazis into believing false plans for a British invasion of Greece.	SCYTHIAN played the SERAPH and the PORTCHESTER CASTLE played herself
Marina de razboi româna	1913	...aka Romanian Military Navy, The 1913 International: English title: informal literal title
Marina de razboi româna	1913	...aka Romanian Military Navy, The 1913 International: English title: informal literal title
Master of Ballantrae, The	1952	Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey, Anthony Steel, Yvonne Furneaux, Felix Aylmer directed by William Keighley This swashbuckling high-seas romance tells the tale of a daring Scottish landowner who joins a rebellion against the King of England	Italian brigantine MARCEL B. SURDO
McHale's Navy	1997	Tom Arnold, David Alan Grier, Dean Stockwell Directed by Bryan Spicer. The Navy will never be the same after Captain McHale and his ragtag band of bumbling misfits are called upon to defend the base of San Ysidro Island from an evil terrorist bent on world domination.
McHale's Navy	1962	TV series
McHale's Navy	1964
McHale's Navy	1997
McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force	1965
Mediterranean during June and July 1955.
Meet the Navy	1946
Men of Honor	2000	...aka Men of Honour 2001 UK
Men of the Lightship (GB)	1940	25 mins, The Luftwaffe attack an isolated lightship. With non-professional cast. Dir David Macdonald
Men on Call	1930	Fox Motion Picture from book The Storm Fighters ca 1927)
Men Without Women	1930	John Ford film about a crew that awaits rescue about sunken submarine S-13. This early "talkie" uses both spoken dialogue and silent-film intertitles - sometimes in the same scene
Merchant Seamen	1941	Directed by Jack W. Holmes. English semi-documentary about the Merchant Navy, made for patriotic purposes during the war. It's of interest for historical purposes only, and for one of the few film scores by classical composer and conductor Constant Lambert (includes set pieces such as Convoy in the Fog and The Attack).
Message in a Bottle	1999
Midnight Crossing	1988	Faye Dunaway, Daniel J. Travanti
Midway
Mighty Navy, The	1941
Miss Jackie of the Navy	1916	...aka Jackie of the Navy 1916 USA ...aka Miss Jackie of the Navy 1916 USA
Missing-The Indianapolis
Mission of the Shark			Preserved battleship ALABAMA stood in for onboard and on deck scenes on the USS INDIANAPOLIS
Mister Roberts	1955	Life aboard a World War Two cargo ship yearning for action. With Henry Fonda, James Cagney and Jack Lemmon.
Mister Roberts (US)	1955	123 mins, Comedy-drama set aboard a US navy cargo vessel languishing in a quiet corner of the Pacific, as the war draws to a close. With Henry Fonda, Jack Lemmon, James Cagney. Dir Mervyn LeRoy/John Ford
Moby Dick	1930	John Barrymore as Captain Ahab.
Moby Dick	1956	Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab, with Orson Welles, Harry Andrews, and Richard Basehart, directed by John Huston, part filmed off the Cork coast.	GOLDSEEKER was converted into the whaler PEQUOD
Moby Dick	1995	Made-for-TV. Starring Patrick Stewart, with Gregory Peck in a supporting role	BOUNTY
Moby Dick	1954	Dir: John Huston; starring Gregory Peck	PEQUOD was Ryelands, three-masted schooner built by Nicholson & Marsh at Glasson Dock in 1887, skippered by Alan Villiers
Moby Dick	1954	Dir: John Huston; starring Gregory Peck	PEQUOD was Ryelands, three-masted schooner built by Nicholson & Marsh at Glasson Dock in 1887, skippered by Alan Villiers
Moby Dick	1954	Dir: John Huston; starring Gregory Peck	PEQUOD was Ryelands, three-masted schooner built by Nicholson & Marsh at Glasson Dock in 1887, skippered by Alan Villiers
Mon ami Pierre	1951	by Louis Felix and Paula Neurisse, Concarneau fishing, prize at Venice Film Festival
Morgenrot	1933	German. Suspenseful story about a crew trapped in a sunken U-boat during World War I.
Morning Departure	1950	Twelve men are trapped in a sunken submarine, but only eight can escape.With John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Kenneth More.	TIPTOE played the part of the TROJAN. Depot ship MAIDSTONE, submarine TOTEM, HMS ZEST and a division of the pre WW II A to I Class destroyers are also seen
Mouse that roared, The			PALADIN built 1913 for Clyde tender duties
Mr Roberts		WWII
Mr. Lucky		Cary Grant
Mutiny on the Bounty	1935	Charles Laughton as Lieutenant Bligh confronts Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian	schooner LILY built at San Francisco in 1882; full-rigged ship PACIFIC QUEEN, ex-BALCLUTHA had one side painted in black and white bands to represent a ship of the line in the background of a harbor scene
Mutiny on the Bounty	1935	Starred Charles Laughton as Bligh, Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian	BOUNTY and PANDORA were respectively the schooners LILY and NANUK (ex-ITTLIE FJORD) or three-masted schooner NANUK built Fairhaven, California in 1892 was converted to H.M.S. PANDORA
Mutiny on the Bounty	1963	Starred Marlon Brando as Fletcher Christian, Trevor Howard as Bligh	replica Bounty built by Smith and Rhuland (now in Long Island)
Mutiny on the Bounty	1984	The Bounty Anthony Hopkins as Bligh, Mel Gibson as Fletcher Christian.	BOUNTY now in Australia
Mutiny on the Elsinore
Mystic Nights and Pirate Fights	1998	...aka Navy Kids - Die Schatzjäger 1998 Germany
Mystic Nights and Pirate Fights	1998	...aka Navy Kids - Die Schatzjäger 1998 Germany
Nate and Hayes	1983	The British title was Savage Islands. Starred Tommy Lee Jones and Michael O'Keefe in the title roles.
Navy Blue and Gold	1937
Navy Blue Days	1925
Navy Blues	1923
Navy Blues	1929	Directed by Clarence Brown, with Bill Haines and Anita Page; script at Special Collections, Hoskins Library, University of Tennessee Knoxville
Navy Blues	1937	Dick Purcell, Mary Brian, Warren Hymer, directed by Ralph Staub. A tough sailor bets his pals that he can win the love of a prissy librarian and so masquerades as a candidate for the Naval Academy to catch her eye
Navy Blues	1941
Navy Blues	1994	TV
Navy Born	1936
Navy Bound	1951
Navy Comes Through, The	1942
Navy Lark, The			PORTCHESTER CASTLE played the TROUTBRIDGE and the inshore minesweeper REEDHAM was also involved
Navy Lark, The	1959
Navy Log	1955	TV series
Navy Nurse	1945
Navy SEALS	1990
Navy SEALS: The Untold Stories	2001	mini TV series
Navy Secrets	1939
Navy Spy	1937
Navy vs. the Night Monsters, The	1966	...aka Monsters of the Night 1966 ...aka Night Crawlers, The 1966
Navy Way, The	1944
Navy Wife	1935	...aka Beauty's Daughter 1935
Navy Wife	1956	...aka Mother, Sir! 1956 UK
Navy, The	1930
Neal of the Navy	1915
Nelson Affair, The	1973	US title of Bequest to the Nation
Nelson Touch, The	1943	Also known as Corvette 225, B/W, Directed Richard Rosson, with Randolph Scott, James Brown. World War II era submarine warfare movies made during the war. Gritty movie that gives a good depiction of the absolutely vital Battle of the Atlantic and the crucial role convoy escorts played in winning the war.
News for the Navy	1937
Night To Remember, A	1958	Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Titanic, directed by Roy Ward Baker	Titanic
Norseman, The	1978	Viking saga with Lee Majors.
North Sea Patrol	1939	...aka Luck of the Navy 1939 UK
Nothing for Granted: The Story of the Navy's Test and Evaluation Force	1970
Odyssey, The	1996	Big budget TV mini series. Armande Assante, Gret Scacchi, Geraldine Chaplin, Christopher Lee, Irene Pappas
Old Ironsides	1927	B&W, Silent. Barbary Wars, Wallace Beery played the "Gunner's Mate". Charles Farrell played the young sailor and Esther Ralston played his love interest. SANTA CLARA as a Tripolitan frigate	U.S.S. Constitution, LLEWELYN J. MORSE; SANTA CLARA was used as a Barbary frigate
Old Ironsides	1927	B&W, Silent. Barbary Wars, Wallace Beery played the "Gunner's Mate". Charles Farrell played the young sailor and Esther Ralston played his love interest. SANTA CLARA as a Tripolitan frigate	U.S.S. Constitution, LLEWELYN J. MORSE; SANTA CLARA was used as a Barbary frigate
Old Man and the Sea, The	1958	Hemingway's classic tale of the sea, wonderfully done for the big screen. Oscar nominations for Best Cinematography and Best Actor (Tracy), Oscar winner for Best Score.
Old Man and the Sea, The	1990	Made-for-TV (UK) remake with Anthony Quinn.
On the Beach	1959	Moving story of a U.S. submarine crew that finds itself stranded in Australia in 1964, after a nuclear war has destroyed the rest of the world. As the radioactive residue closes in, the captain (Gregory Peck) and crew must decide whether to go back home. Based on the novel by Nevil Shute.	HM submarine ANDREW played the USS SWORDFISH
One Crazy Summer
One-Man Navy, The	1941
Onedin Line, The		TV series, music from the ballet "Spartacus" by Khachaturian	Soren Larsen
Operation Pacific	1951	Under John Wayne's leadership, the submarine Thunderfish fights the Japanese and rescues nuns and children. This film, the first of a spate of World War II submarine movies released during the 1950s, was loosely based on the true stories of the USS Angler (SS-240) and Growler (SS-215). Admiral Charles Lockwood, the commander of submarine operations in the Pacific, served as technical advisor.
Operation Pacific	1951	Under John Wayne's leadership, the submarine Thunderfish fights the Japanese and rescues nuns and children. This film, the first of a spate of World War II submarine movies released during the 1950s, was loosely based on the true stories of the USS Angler (SS-240) and Growler (SS-215). Admiral Charles Lockwood, the commander of submarine operations in the Pacific, served as technical advisor.
Operation Petticoat	1959	Comedy about a damaged World War II submarine seeking a yard for repairs. Along the way, it takes on five stranded Army nurses and is painted pink (the only color the crew could find). Stars Cary Grant and Tony Curtis.
Operation Petticoat	1959	Comedy about a damaged World War II submarine seeking a yard for repairs. Along the way, it takes on five stranded Army nurses and is painted pink (the only color the crew could find). Stars Cary Grant and Tony Curtis.
Operation Petticoat	1977	Remake of 1959 film
Our Fighting Navy	1937	...aka Torpedoed 1939 USA
Our Invincible Navy	1918
Our Navy	1918
Our Navy in Action	1921
Out with the Tide		by John Gittens of Cleethorpes, Grimsby Trawlers,
Outbreak			LANE VICTORY as a vector
Outcast Of The Islands		another Conrad sea yarn
Overboard
Para Handy		appeared as the VITAL SPARK in a BBC film series	SAXON, ex-DANE, 1903 see Clyde Puffers p44
Pearl Harbour	2000		HORNET (preserved carrier LEXINGTON?) stood in for Japanese carrier on-deck scenes
Perfect Strangers (aka Vacation From Marriage) (GB)	1945	102 mins, A stale marriage is revitalised on the outbreak of war, when husband and wife both join the navy. With Robert Donat, Deborah Kerr, Roland Culver. Dir Alexander Korda
Perilous Expedition (aka Stot Starr den Danske Somand) (Denmark)	1948	93 mins, The story of the crew of a Danish merchantman who escape to England after their country's capitulation in 1940 and subsequently serve on the Iceland convoys and in the Mediterranean. With Lau Lauritzen, Poul Reichhardt, Lisbeth Movin. Dir Bodil Ipsen/Lau Lauritzen The story of the crew of a Danish merchantman who escape to England after their country's capitulation in 1940 and subsequently serve on the Iceland convoys and in the Mediterranean. With Lau Lauritzen, Poul Reichhardt, Lisbeth Movin. Dir Bodil Ipsen/Lau Lauritzen
Pile Driving, Washington Navy Yard	1897
Pirates	1986	Written and directed by Roman Polanski, starring Walter Matthau	Ship used is the NEPTUNE, a modern replica of a galleon now located in Genoa's Old Harbour and open to visitors. Seehttp://www.foto.genova.it/z04cGaleone.htm
Pirates of the Caribbean		filmed in San Juan, Puerto Rico March 2003	ketch IRENE (1907) of Bridgewater, England, Lady Washington,
Pool of London, The	1950	Basil Dearden for Gaumont of Ealing (Fr, version Les trafiquants du Dumbar	Dunbar
Poseidon Adventure, The			RMS Queen Mary
Pride of the Navy	1939
Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell, The	1968
PT 109
Pursuit of the Graf Spee		see "Battle of the River Plate"
Q Ships (aka Blockade) (GB)	1928	88 mins, Q ships were what the British in WW1 called warships disguising themselves as merchant vessels in the hope of seducing U-boats into surfacing. Earl Jellicoe is credited as technical adviser. With Johnny Butt, JP Kennedy,Val Gielgud. Dir Geoffrey Barkas/M Barry
Racing with the Moon	1984	...aka Zeit Verrinnt, die Navy ruft, Die 1984 West Germany
Rainbow Warrior
Raise the Titanic
RCN Communications - Tape Relay, Part 1: Navy Network, Operating the System	1959
Reap the Wild Wind	1942	John Wayne, Ray Milland, Paulette Goddard, Raymond Massey, Robert Preston, Susan Hayward, Charles Bickford. The adventures of 1840s Key West salvagers. a willful wench stowed aboard a sailing ship (inside a steamer trunk) and was lost when the ship was scuttled
Remember the Maine
Rengo kantai	1981	...aka Grand Fleet, The 1981 ...aka Great Fleet, The 1981 ...aka Imperial Navy, The 1983 USA
Riddle of the Sands	1979	The movie manages to capture the spirit and ambience of Erskine Childers' 1903 novel, and, remained remarkably faithful to the book. Simon MacCorkindale and Michael York are perfect as Davies and Carruthers.
Ride the Wild Surf		Fabian
Roar, Navy, Roar	1942
Robinson Crusoe		various versions
Rocky			four-masted bark MOSHULU
Romance of the Navy, A	1915
Rulers of the Sea			Metha Nelson as the "Falcon" and the bald headed wooden schooner "Golden State" refited as the paddle-wheeler "Sirus"
Run silent, run deep	1958	Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster; A submarine skipper (Clark Gable) single-mindedly pursues the notorious Japanese destroyer "Bungo Pete," which sank his previous boat. This adaptation of the best-selling novel by former sub commander Ned Beach also stars Don Rickles.
Russians are coming, The	1966	Popular comedy about a Soviet captain who unintentionally provokes panic among Maine locals while seeking a tow for his grounded submarine.
Saboteur		Alfred Hitchcock	burned-out SS Normandie
Sailor Beware	1952	Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in the navy.
San Demetrio: London	1943	British b/w documentary directed by Charles Frend and Robert Hamer with Walter Fitzgerald, Ralph Michael, Robert Beatty. The tale of tanker on a return trip to Galviston, Texas. It has a bit of a run in with a "Jerry" boat and the remainder of the film depicts the courage of the crew trying to keep things afloat. As the film was made during World War II the sentiments are entirely predictable/understandable.
Sand Pebbles, The		On a river in China; prewar US Navy. of interest because of the origin of the gunboat's triple expansion machine, which plays an important role in the story.the star,Steve McQueen, being an engine-room rating. The engine in question was salvaged from a Vancouver based whalecatcher, taken down to hollywood, and when necessary turned over using compressed air.	SS Lane Victory
Saps at Sea	1940	Laurel and Hardy comedy. The two take a long sea voyage to calm Oliver's nerves.
Sea Chase, The	1955	Directed by John Farrow with John Wayne and Lana Turner. As World War II begins, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich tries to get his ship back to Germany through a gantlet of Allied warships.
Sea Devils	1953	Rock Hudson, Yvonne de Carlo. Based on Victor Hugo's novel Toilers of the Sea. Filmed partly in Channel Islands
Sea Gypsies, The	1978	Robert Logan. A man and his three children set off to sail around the world, and are shipwrecked along with a female journalist on an Aleutian island.
Sea Hawk, The	1940	Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains, Donald Crisp, and Alan Hale, Sr. This picture was based on Sir Francis Drake, and the English seadogs.
Seawife	1957	81 mins, colour, made in UK, adaptation of JM Scott's novel "Sea-Wyf and Biscuit"; Richard Burton, Joan Collins as a nun, Basil Sydney, Cy Grant, Ronald Squire, Joan Hickson. WWII mix of romance, religion and racism as four survivors from a ship torpedoed during the fall of Singapore make it by life raft to a desert island. Rossellini was the original director but handed over to Paul Crosfield.
Sea Wolf, The	1911	Silent
Sea Wolf, The	1913	US silent b/w directed by Hobart Bosworth with Hobart Bosworth as Wolf Larsen, Herbert Rawlinson as Humphrey Van Weyden and Jack London as "A sailor".
Sea Wolf, The	1920	US silent b/w directed by George Melford and Frank Reicher with Noah Beery and James Gordon
Sea Wolf, The	1926	US silent b/w directed by Ralph Ince, playing Wolf himself and with Theodore von Eltz and Claire Adams
Sea Wolf, The	1930	First talking version, directed by Alfred Santell, Fox Film Corp, with Milton Sills	Bear
Sea Wolf, The	1941	Edward G. Robinson as Wolf Larson, Alexander Knox as Humphries; with Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Gene Lockhart, directed by Michael Curtiz. Adaptation of Jack London's adventure novel about the survivors of a shipwreck who are rescued at sea by a brutal captain who tortures them and breaks their spirit.
Sea Wolf, The	1950	Barricade. Raymond Massey, Dane Clark.
Sea Wolf, The	1993	Charles Bronson as Wolf Larson, Christopher Reeve as Humphries, Catherine Mary Stewart
Sea Wolf, The	1997	Another remake with Stacy Keach, Jaason Simmons
Sea Wolf, The	2001	Not the Jack London story. Directed by Mark Roper with Thomas Griffith and Gerit Kling. Jeffery Thorpe roams the Caribbean in his boat, 'The Sea Wolf'. He will take any job, no matter how suspicious the circumstances
Seafarers, The	1953	Short documentary directed by Stanley Kubrick with narrative by 'talking head' Dan Hollenbeck. Stanley Kubrick's first feature made in colour - extolls the benefits of membership to the Seafarers International Union. Not well known.
Seagulls over Sorrento		filmed in Alderney and Jersey	brief shot of XE9 (UNEXPECTED)
Seas Beneath (US)	1931	87 mins, Concerning the US navy's 'Mystery Ships', their equivalent of the British 'Q Ships' (though reviews of the day maintained that the Americans never actually used these tactics.) Filmed on various US navy vessels around Catalina (but nominally set in the Mediterranean). With George O'Brien, Walter Kelly, Warren Hymer. Dir John Ford
Secret of the U110	1997	made for TV
Serpico			FRANCE
She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal	1995	TV ...aka Brutale Exzesse - Skandal in der Navy 1995 TV Germany
Ship of Fools	1965	In 1933 a German liner leaves Vera Cruz for Bremerhaven with a mixed bag of passengers
Ship that Died of Shame, The	1955	The wartime crew of a motor gunboat buy the vessel and go into postwar business as smugglers.
Shipwrecked	1990	A coming of age movie made in Europe. Made in Norway, the European title is Haarkon Haarkonson
Shogun		TV Series	GOLDEN HINDE replica built in England in 1973
Si tous les gars du monde	1955	Christian Jaque's Concarneau trawler, sick Algerian, Amateur radio,	Lutèce
Si tous les gars du monde	1955	Christian Jaque's Concarneau trawler, sick Algerian, Amateur radio,	Lutèce
Si tous les gars du monde	1955	Christian Jaque's Concarneau trawler, sick Algerian, Amateur radio,	Lutèce
Silent Enemy, The			RFA WAR BRAHMIN played the Italian tanker OLTERRA
Silent Running			USS Valley Forge
Silver Strand	1995	TV ...aka Navy Action 1995 TV Germany
Sinbad the Sailor	1947	Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, with Maureen O'Hara and Anthony Quinn. Sinbad after the treasure of Alexander the Great, pursued by evil sorcerers and monsters
Sinbad the Sailor	1958	7th Voyage of Sinbad. Kerwin Mathews. Sinbad after the magic lamp, pursued by evil sorcerers and monsters.
Sinbad the Sailor	1974	Golden Voyage of Sinbad. John Phillip Law. Sinbad after the secret of the golden map, pursued by evil sorcerers and monsters. Written, produced and special effects by Ray Harryhausen.
Sinbad the Sailor	1977	Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger. Patrick Wayne (son of the Duke). Sinbad delivering a bewitched prince, pursued by an evil witch and monsters. Written, produced, and special effects by Ray Harryhausen.
Singapore Mutiny, The	1928	(Also The Wreck of the Singapore in the UK) Directed by Ralph Ince, with himself, Estelle Taylor, Jim Mason, b/w, silent, USA
Sink the Bismark			models were used
Sinking of the Andrea Dorea
Sinking of the Lusitania	2001	TV documentary narrated Will Lyman
Six Hundred Days to Cocos Island	2001	Video Gene and Josie Evans
Skimpy in the Navy	1949
Skipper, The	1990	AKA Kill Cruise and The Storm. Juergen Prochnow, Elisabeth Hurley, and Patsy Kensit.
Small Boat Navy in Vietnam	1968
Smuggler's Island	1915	Universal - starring Grace Cunard and Francis Ford
Snow Goose, The		Produced by Hallmark and the BBC, starring Richard Harris and Jenny Agutter
Soldier, Sailor (GB)	1944	61 mins, Fictional story aiming to underline the inter-dependence of the armed services. With Ted Holliday, Al Beresford, David Sime. Dir Alexander Shaw
Son of the Navy	1940
Souls at Sea	1937	Gary Cooper, George Raft, Harry Carey Sr., Alan Ladd. Slavery on the high seas in 1842. Steel bark KAIULANI was used as both a white-hulled packet ship with yards on the mizzen, and a black-hulled bark	KAIULANI
Spanish Main, The	1945	Maureen O'Hara, Paul Henreid, Walter Slezak
Splendid Road, The	1925	passengers to the Gold Rush	full-rigged ship INDIANA
Splinters in the Navy	1931
Stand By For Action (US)	1942	100 mins, A 'mothball' destroyer in action in the Pacific.The screenplay was originally set in the British navy but after Pearl Harbor, was hastily rewritten and Americanised. With Robert Taylor, Charles Laughton, Brian Donlevy. Dir Robert Z Leonard
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home			USS RANGER played the role of carrier USS ENTERPRISE
Submarine Command	1951	William Holden is a Korean War submarine commander who is haunted by his memory of the last day of World War II, when, as an exec, he saved his boat by crash diving while the captain was on the bridge.
Submarine D-1	1937	Action film showing a submarine rescue using the McCann Rescue Chamber and Momsen Lung.
Submarine Patrol (US)	1938	95 mins, WW1 story about the achievements of the so-called 'Splinter Fleet', a squadron of wooden submarine chasers. With Richard Greene, Preston Foster, George Bancroft. Dir John Ford
Submarine Raider	1942	Hokey yarn about submarine that fails in its attempts to warn Pearl Harbor of the impending Japanese attack, then sinks one of the carriers that launched it.
Suicide Fleet, The	1931		BOHEMIA was sunk
Summer Rental	1985	John Candy, Rip Torn, Richard Crenna.
Surcouf, le tigre des sept mers	1966	career of French privateer Captain Robert Surcouf directed by Antonio Molina, Sergio Bergonzelli (France-Italie-Espagne, 1 h 38, Couleurs)	French bark or barkentine from the Grand Banks fleet was converted to LA CONFIANCE
Survive the Savage Sea	1992	Based on Dougal Robertson's book, which told the true story of his family's ordeal in the Pacific.
Swashbuckler	1976	Robert Shaw, James Earl Jones, Peter Boyle, Geneviève Bujold, Beau Bridges directed James Goldstone. Red Ned Lynch (Robert Shaw) heroically saves his friend Nick Debrett (James Earl Jones) from death at the hands of the authorities
Swashbuckler	1976	Robert Shaw, James Earl Jones, Peter Boyle, Geneviève Bujold, Beau Bridges directed James Goldstone. Red Ned Lynch (Robert Shaw) heroically saves his friend Nick Debrett (James Earl Jones) from death at the hands of the authorities
Sweetheart of the Navy	1937
Swiss Family Robinson	1960	John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur Directed by Ken Annakin. Fleeing from Napoleonic oppression, the Robinson family get shipwrecked and marooned on an island
Task Force	1949	Gary Cooper, Jane Wyatt, Wayne Morris, Walter Brennan, Julie Londond directed Delmer Daves. TASK FORCE far surpasses most action war films in that it focuses on the invention of the air craft carrier and its use in World War II. Gary Cooper stars as Jonathan L. Scott, the patriotic naval tactician.	real footage of USS FRANKLIN after her devastating damage of March 1945
The Big Blockade (GB)	1941	73 mins, A dramatisation of the idea of economic warfare, showing how the navy and the RAF were trying to ensure that Germany was as cut off from the rest of the world as possible. With John Mills, Michael Redgrave, Will Hay. Dir Charles Frend
The Caine Mutiny (US)	1954	125 mins, A paranoid captain displays cowardice in action, then mishandles his ship during a typhoon, provoking a mutiny by his officers. From the popular best-seller by Herman Wouk. With Humphrey Bogart, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray. Dir Edward Dmytryk
The Caine Mutiny Court Martial (US)	1988	100 mins, An expanded version of the last section of the previous title. With Brad Davis, Eric Bogosian, Jeff Daniels. Dir Robert Altman
The Cruel Sea (GB)	1953	126 mins, Adaptation of celebrated Nicholas Monsarrat novel: the war as fought by the corvettes, their tragedies and very occasional triumphs. By the time this film came to be made, the Admiralty had got rid of all its corvettes; finally one was located in Malta - the Coreopsis, which had been on loan to the Greek navy.With Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, Denholm Elliott. Dir Charles Frend
The Deep Six (US)	1958	105 mins, The dilemma of a devout Quaker appointed gunnery officer aboard a destroyer. With Alan Ladd, William Bendix, Keenan Wynn. Dir Rudolph Mate
The Fighting Coastguard (US)	1951	86 mins, Two shipyard workers are drafted into the Coastguard and see action against the Japanese. With Brian Donlevy, Forrest Tucker, Ella Rains. Dir Joe Kane
The Frogmen (US)	1951	96 mins, Underwater demolition squads in action in the Pacific. With Richard Widmark, Dana Andrews, Robert Wagner. Dir Lloyd Bacon
The Key (GB)	1958,127 mins, Love and death among tugboat crews attempting to save stricken merchant ships during the battle of the Atlantic. With William Holden Trevor Howard, Sophia Loren. Dir Carol Reed
The Long Voyage Home (US)	1940	105 mins, Various episodes in the wartime voyage of a cargo ship from the Caribbean to London. With John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter. Dir John Ford
The Navy Way (US)	1944	74 mins, A mixed bunch of draftees spend time at the Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois, before being sent off for active duty. With Robert Lowery, Bill Henry, Jean Parker. Dir William Berke
The Sharkfighters (US)	1956	73 mins, A group of navy scientists based in Cuba during WW2 attempt to devise an effective shark repellent. With Victor Mature, James Olsen, Karen Steele. Dir Jerry Hopper
The Shipbuilders (GB)	1943	89 mins, Drama set in a shipyard, closed in the 1930s through lack of orders, reopened to build war- ships as a new conflict looms. With Clive Brook, Geoffrey Hibbert, Finlay Currie. Dir John Baxter
The Weaker Sex (GB)	1948	84 mins, The story of a family at war, with the focus on two daughters who both join the Wrens. With Ursula Jeans, Joan Hopkins, Lana Morris. Dir Roy Baker
The White Ship (aka La Nave Bianca) (Italy)	1941	77 mins, Beginning with a naval engagement and going on to show the care of the wounded aboard a hospital ship. With non-professional cast. Dir Roberto Rossellinir
They Were Expendable	1945	Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Ward Bond, Marshall Thompson directed John Ford. John Ford's poetic adaptation of William White's book about a PT boat squadron in the South Pacific during World War II may be the best feature film on the war in that theater and is considered by some scholars, including British director Lindsay Anderson, as Ford's greatest work.
They Were Expendable (US)	1945	135 mins, A PT boat squadron in action off the Philippines immediately after Pearl Harbor. With John Wayne, Robert Montgomery, Ward Bond. Dir John Ford
This Man's Navy	1945
Three Men in a Boat	1898	silent, made in UK, b/w - probably not the JK Jerome story
Three Men in a Boat	1956	Directed Ken Annakin, screenplay Hubert Gregg, Vernon Harris, with Jimmy Edwrads, Jill Ireland, David Tomlinson
Three Men in a Boat	1975	Directed Stephen Frear, music John Addison, with Tim Curry (TV?)
Titanic	1997	Leonardo Di Caprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane Directed by James Cameron. Spectacular special effects set amidst the backdrop of one of the most tragic events of the 20th Century; one of the greatest Hollywood spectaculars of all time	JEROMIAH O'BRIEN (her engine anyway), SS Lane Victory (wake anyway)
Torpedo Alley	1952	William Bendix commands a submarine in this story of Korean War combat and romance.
Torpedo Run	1958	Glenn Ford is a submarine commander who is forced to sink a Japanese transport carrying American prisoners and his own family because it was being used to shield an aircraft carrier. He then seeks his revenge. Ernest Borgnine also stars.
Torpedo Squadron, Move Out (aka Raigekitai Shutsudo) (Japan)	1944	90 mins, Three young officers volunteer for duty as human torpedoes, and sink an American flagship. Dir Kajiro Yamamoto
Treasure Island	1912	Silent
Treasure Island	1918	Silent b/w USA Directed by Chester M. Franklin and Sidney Franklin with Francis Carpenter, Virginia Lee Corbin and Violet Radcliffe.
Treasure Island	1920	Silent, starring Lon Chaney
Treasure Island	1934	First talking version, starred Wallace Beery as Long John Silver; Jackie Cooper as Jim Hawkins, and Lionel Barrymore as Billy Bones.	Nanuk
Treasure Island	1950	US / UK directed by Byron Haskin - Robert Newton as Long John Silver
Treasure Island	1950	Walt Disney's first completely live action feature.	Ryelands, three-masted schooner built by Nicholson & Marsh at Glasson Dock in 1887, converted to "HISPANIOLA"
Treasure Island	1950	Walt Disney's first completely live action feature.	Ryelands, three-masted schooner built by Nicholson & Marsh at Glasson Dock in 1887, converted to "HISPANIOLA"
Treasure Island	1950	Walt Disney's first completely live action feature.	Ryelands, three-masted schooner built by Nicholson & Marsh at Glasson Dock in 1887, converted to "HISPANIOLA"
Treasure Island	1971	Made in Europe, starred Orson Welles as Long John.
Treasure Island	1990	A labour of love for Charlton Heston and his son Fraser.
True to the Navy	1930	US comedy directed by Frank Tuttle with Clara Bow and Fredric March
Trust the Navy	1935	British b/w comedy directed by Henry W. George with Lupino Lane and Nancy Burne
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea	1954	Kirk Douglas, Peter Lorre, James Mason; Victorian scientists at sea are wrecked and captured by mysterious captain of a futuristic submarine.
Twilight of the Gods	1958	Rock Hudson, Cyd Charisse, story about the twilight of commercial sail.	Albatros
Two Years Before the Mast	1946	Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, and William Bendix in the film of Richard Henry Dana's true story.
U-571	2000	Matthew McConnaughey and Bill Paxton star in this forthcoming World War II action film, in which a U.S. submarine captain undertakes to recover an Enigma decoding machine from a stranded German U-boat. Based-on-fact story (although it was actually the British who recovered the decoder...).
Under Ten Flags	1960	Sotto dieci bandiere directed by Duilio Coletti with Charles Laughton, Van Heflin and Mylène Demongeot. A view of the war through the eyes of the captain of the german raider, Atlantis.	An Italian postwar destroyer (or possibly the destroyer leader postwar conversion of a 'Capitani Romani' class small cruiser?) played the role of the British cruiser HMS DEVONSHIRE sinking the ATLANTIS
Under Ten Flags	1960	Sotto dieci bandiere directed by Duilio Coletti with Charles Laughton, Van Heflin and Mylène Demongeot. A view of the war through the eyes of the captain of the german raider, Atlantis.	An Italian postwar destroyer (or possibly the destroyer leader postwar conversion of a 'Capitani Romani' class small cruiser?) played the role of the British cruiser HMS DEVONSHIRE sinking the ATLANTIS
United States Navy Band, The	1943
Up Periscope	1959	James Garner stars in this World War II action yarn about a submarine on a secret mission to photograph a Japanese code book.
Up The Creek	1958	English b/w comedy directed by Val Guest with David Tomlinson, Peter Sellers and Wilfrid Hyde-White.	minesweeper WELFARE took lead role; film was shot at Thos. Ward's shipbreaking yard at Columbia Wharf, Grays, Essex
Viking, The	1931	THE VIKING produced in 1931 by Varick Frissell, with Captain Bob Bartlett.	A wooden sealer, built Norway 188, used by Fridtjof Nansen on his first trip in 1882
Vikings, The	1958	Viking saga with Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis
Vivent les Dockers	1951	Robert Menegoz-Genestal, documnentary on 5 French ports, prize at Karlovy Vary Film Festival
Voyage	1993	Another imitation of Dead Calm, this one is more successful than the others.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea	1961	The USS Seaview, is a state of the art nuclear submarine fresh from the shipyards. She is on her maiden voyage, when the crew learns that the Van Allen radiation belt has become unstable and is threatening to destroy all life on the planet. Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden, Peter Lorrie. Directed by Irwin Allen
Wackiest Ship in the Army	1960	Comedy with Jack Lemmon and Ricky Nelson.
Wake of the Red Witch	1948	John Wayne and Gail Russell in the film adaptation of Garland Roark's intense and dark novel.
Waters of Time	1951	Basil Wright for the Port of London Authority
Waterworld	1995	Kevin Costner as the sailor of the future, versus Dennis Hopper as the evil stinkpotter.
We dive at dawn	1943	Directed by Anthony Asquith with John Mills and Louis Bradfield. All leave is canceled so that a British submarine can be sent after a new German warship. They chase it so far that they have no fuel to get home.	P614, ex Turkish boat, played the SEA TIGER. Depot ship FORTH and submarine SAFARI are also seen
We Joined the Navy	1962	Directed by Wendy Toye with Kenneth More and Lloyd Nolan. Comedy - tiltled We Are in the Navy Now, in USA
We're in the Navy Now	1926	Directed by A. Edward Sutherland with Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton. Comedy.
We've Never Been Licked	1943	Directed by John Rawlins with Noah Beery, Jr., Robert Mitchum and Richard Quine. WWII morale film for Texas A&M graduates fighting overseas.
We've Never Been Licked	1943	Directed by John Rawlins with Noah Beery, Jr., Robert Mitchum and Richard Quine. WWII morale film for Texas A&M graduates fighting overseas.
Western Approaches	1944	Directed by Pat Jackson, with Eric Fullerton, Captain Duncan MacKenzie. Captain W. Kerr, A wartime documentary, made under the auspices of the Crown Film Unit, made as a tribute to the Merchant Navy.	filmed aboard a "Blue Funnel" ship
White Squall	1996	A modern story of tall ship sailing, based on a true story. (Albatros)	Eye of the Wind (re-rigged)
Wind	1992	Fictionalised story of the '87 America's Cup.
Wind in the Willows	1949	Disney.
Wind in the Willows	1983	Made-for-TV (UK). This one is animation/stop motion
Wind in the Willows	1987	Made-for-TV (US).
Wind in the Willows	1996	Live action. Monty Python does a classic fairy tale.
Windjammer	1930	UK, b/w directed by John Orton with Tony Bruce and Michael Hogan
Windjammer	1937	Directed by Ewing Scott with Constance Worth and George O'Brien - captured gun runners
Windjammer, The	1926	b/w, silent, directed by Harry Joe Brown, Billy Sullivan as a sailorman prizefighter
Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich	1958	Norwegian documentary by Bill Colleran and Louis De Rochemont III; first presentation in CINEMIRACLE, is the record of a training cruise of the full-rigged S/S Christian Radich from Oslo across the Atlantic, through the Caribbean, to New York and back home again.
Wings of Eagles, The	1957	Directed by John Ford with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara: a biography of Navy flier-turned-screenwriter Frank W. "Spig" Wead.
Wings of the Navy	1939
Wolf Larsen	1958	Directed by Harmon Jones, after Jack London, with Barry Sullivan, Henry Rowland, Peter Graves and Chuck Connors. Beast of the Seven Seas. In every roaring port they knew the "Wolf" and his savage crew...and what befell his human prey
Wolf Larsen	1975	Il Lupo dei mari, directed by Giuseppe Vari with Chuck Connors, Barbara Bach and Giuseppe Pambieri
World in His Arms, The	1952	San Francisco-based sealers operating against the law in Russian Alaska in the 1850s.
Wreck of the 'Maine', The	1898	USA, b/w, silent, taken at the same time as "Divers at work on the Maine", gives a comprehensive view of the wreck as seen from the deck of a tug passing completely around it. None of the debris had been removed, and the awful destruction caused by the explosion is plainly seen.
Wreck of the 'Mohican'	1899	UK b/w, silent documentary showing the Porthonstock Life Saving Crew rescuing men from the rigging of the MOHICAN on the Manacle Rocks.
Wreck of the 'Norseman'	1899	US, b/w, silent, a panoramic view taken from the rocky shore, showing the wreck of the steamer NORSEMAN.
Wreck of the 'Vizcaya'	1898	USA, silent, b/w, taken on the morning after the battle in which the Spanish navy was destroyed. This battleship, once the 'Pride of Spain,' is shown a ruined hulk on the beach, the terrible effect of the guns of Uncle Sam's warship being apparent everywhere. Contrasted with our earlier picture of the 'Viscaya' in New York harbor, the 'Viscaya' here presents a woeful appearance
Wreck of the Battleship 'Maine'	1898	USA, b/w, silent, Taken in Havana Harbor from a moving launch, and shows the wreck of the 'Maine' surrounded by wrecking boats and other vessels. The warped and twisted remains show how thoroughly this immense mass of iron and steel was blown out of all semblance of a vessel. The background of this picture is formed by the shores of Havana Harbor, and as the yacht moves around, a panoramic view of the shores adds an interesting feature.
Wreck of the Dunbar, The	1912	Australian, b/w, silent, Directed by Gaston Mervale with Louise Lovely
Wreck of the Grosvenor
Wreck of the Hesperus		Cecil B. DeMille	INDIANA and BOHEMIA
Wreck of the Hesperus	1927	Cecil B. DeMille, Directed by Elmer Clifton with Sam De Grass, Virginia Bradford, Francis Ford	INDIANA and BOHEMIA
Wreck of the Hesperus, The	1927	Directed by Elmer Clifton with Sam De Grasse and Virginia Bradford
Wreck of the Hesperus, The	1944	USA, short colour animation directed by Mannie Davi
Wreck of the Hesperus, The	1948	Directed by John Hoffman with Willard Parker, Edgar Buchanan, Patricia Barry. This grade B retelling of the Longfellow poem is not great art, but it's a good movie for children, especially for a rainy afternoon. Stalwart Willard Parker does battle with a ton of stock footage of storms and ships at sea; and the film is amiable, moving along at a nice clip. Old New England is seldom depicted in old movies (or new ones for that matter), and it's always fascinating to see how it's recreated.
Wreck of the Hesperus, The	1944	USA, short colour animation directed by Mannie Davi
Wreck of the Hesperus, The	1948	Directed by John Hoffman with Willard Parker, Edgar Buchanan, Patricia Barry. This grade B retelling of the Longfellow poem is not great art, but it's a good movie for children, especially for a rainy afternoon. Stalwart Willard Parker does battle with a ton of stock footage of storms and ships at sea; and the film is amiable, moving along at a nice clip. Old New England is seldom depicted in old movies (or new ones for that matter), and it's always fascinating to see how it's recreated.
Wreck of the Hesperus, The	1944	USA, short colour animation directed by Mannie Davi
Wreck of the Julie Plante, The	1985	Directed by Stephen Weston, 4 minute animation based on the poem by William Henry Drummond (1854-1907), this animated short tells the story of the ship JULIE PLANTE which foundered and sank on a stormy night.
Wreck of the Lady Elgin	1999	Video: The story of the famous shipwreck of the Lady Elgin which sank in Lake Michigan in 1860.
Wreck of the Mary Deare, The	1959	Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston, Michael Redgrave, Emlyn Williams, Cecil Parker directed Michael Anderson. A salvage boat discovers the freighter "Mary Deare" adrift on the high seas, all but one of its crew members inexplicably missing. Insurance fraud comes to light when a salvage boat is rescued from the high seas.
Wreck of the S.S. 'Paris'	1899	UK b/w silent documentary: panoramic view, showing wrecking tugs trying to haul the steamship 'Paris' off the Manacle Rocks on which she had been wrecked the day before.
Wreck of the Schooner 'Richmond'	1897	US, b/w, silent This picture was taken within a few hours of the wreck, just after the crew had been taken off by the life-savers. The vessel appears beating upon the rocks, while enormous billows roll over it from stem to stern.
Wreck of the Schooner 'Richmond'	1900	US b/w, silent
Wreck of the Schooner 'Richmond'	1897	US, b/w, silent This picture was taken within a few hours of the wreck, just after the crew had been taken off by the life-savers. The vessel appears beating upon the rocks, while enormous billows roll over it from stem to stern.
Wreck of the Schooner 'Richmond'	1900	US b/w, silent
Wreck of the Singapore, The	1928	(UK title of The Singapore Mutiny) Directed by Ralph Ince, with himself, Estelle Taylor, Jim Mason, b/w, silent, USA
Yangtse Incident	1957	Directed by Michael Anderson. Richard Todd , William Hartnell, Akim Tamiroff, Donald Houston. Also known as Battle Hell (1957) (USA), Escape of the Amethyst (1957), Their Greatest Glory (1957). While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the.	AMETHYST played herself (sister MAGPIE was used for some scenes), frigate TEAZER played CONSORT and CONCORD, Trinity House tender TRITON played river steamer KIANLANG LIBERATOR
Yankee Clipper	1927	Cecil B. DeMille, Silent. William Boyd, Elinor Fair, Junior Coghlan, John Miljan, directed Rupert Julian. This silent film follows the race between two ships and the attempt at proving to an Englishwoman that her fiance is a villainous blackguard.	INDIANA and BOHEMIA
Yellowbeard	1983	Monty Python goes to sea.
Yeoman's Wedding, The	1912	see The Wreck of the Dunbar
YMS-504 subyeong	1963	...aka YMS-504 of the Navy 1963 International: English title
You're in the Navy Now	1951	...aka U.S.S. Teakettle 1951 USA
Your Fighting Navy at Work and at Play	1918
(multiple)		Other ships reported as appearing in various films	Alden Besse, Bohemia, Centennial, Galelia, Indiana, Irene, Llewellyn J. Morse, Lottie Carson, Pacific Queen, S.N. Castle, Santa Clara, Star of Finland, W.F. Jewett, William Brown, William H. Harriman
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea	1954	Adventures of a futuristic atomic submarine. Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas, directed by Richard Fleischer. Walt Disney version of Jules Verne. This Oscar winner (for special effects and set decoration) is a remake of a 1916 silent film.
?	1929	to Greenland, Harvard Universtity Film Foundation	U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Marion

Morning Departure

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Morning Departure
British DVD cover from 2010
Directed by	Roy Ward Baker
Produced by	Jay Lewis
Screenplay by	W.E. Fairchild
Based on	the stage play Morning Departure by Kenneth Woollard
Starring	John Mills Richard Attenborough Bernard Lee Kenneth More Nigel Patrick George Cole
Cinematography	Desmond Dickinson
Edited by	Alan Osbiston
Production company	Jay Lewis Productions
Distributed by	GDF (UK) British Empire Films (AUS)[1] Universal-International(US)
Release dates	21 February 1950 (UK) 3 November 1950 (AUS[1]) 13 January 1951 (US)
Running time	102 min[2]
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	£105,000[3]

Morning Departure (released as Operation Disaster in the United States^[4]) is a 1950 British naval drama film about life aboard a sunken submarine, directed by Roy Ward Baker, and starring John Mills and Richard Attenborough. It is based on a stage play of the same name by Kenneth Woollard, which had also been shown as a live TV play by the BBC both in 1946^[5] and 1948.^[6] It was the feature film debut of Michael Caine

Plot[edit]

The story is set after the end of the Second World War and concerns a Britishsubmarine, HMS Trojan, which is out on a routine exercise to test its new snorkel mast when it encounters a derelict floating magnetic mine left over from the war. The submarine dives, but sets off the mine. The mine blows the bows of the submarine off, and floods the after section through the displaced snorkel mast, killing the 53 crew-members in the bow and stern sections. The submarine settles to the bottom leaving twelve crew members alive amidships, who have been saved by the watertight doors which had been closed by order of the captain when he realised the imminent danger.

When the shore base becomes aware that Trojan is overdue, surface rescue vessels are sent out to investigate. The captain of the submarine, Lieutenant Commander Peter Armstrong (John Mills), sensibly provides an indication of their position to these vessels by expelling a quantity of oil which rises to the surface. Following standard escape procedure, a diver is sent down with an air line while everyone prepares for the rescue. Armstrong selects the first four for release; they escape safely without incident, and are picked up on the surface. The eight remaining crew assume there are plenty of breathing sets for them all to escape successfully. However, the captain discovers that all but four have been destroyed in the blast. This means the final four will have to remain under water until a full salvage operation can be carried out, which may take a week or more.

Armstrong assembles the others to draw lots through a pack of cards he deals out, to decide who goes and who remains. Two, the cook A/B Higgins (James Hayter) and the first lieutenant, Lieutenant Manson (Nigel Patrick), with the lowest cards, select themselves to stay behind along with Armstrong. The top three, to go first, also select themselves with high cards. Of the other two, there is a tie, both knaves, between Stoker Snipe (Richard Attenborough) and E.R.A. Marks (George Cole). On losing a re-deal, young Snipe goes berserk with fear and has to be physically restrained. Armstrong approaches Marks and asks if he will forfeit his place for Snipe, sensing difficulties if Snipe is left behind. Marks agrees.

They begin to prepare for escape, but Snipe now hangs back, falsely claiming he has hurt his arm in the scuffle. He insists that Marks should go. Marks and the other three escape safely through the hatch and are picked up by the salvage vessels. Below, Manson has a fainting fit but Snipe catches him using both arms without difficulty. Cheerfully at first, the four begin the wait for the salvage operation.

Above, all goes well to begin with, in fine weather. Divers manage to secure cables under the submarine, which is slowly winched up, but only fifteen feet per day can be achieved. However, as the days go by, the weather turns, and soon there is a full storm at sea. As a result, the submarine shifts on the cables, and sinks again to the floor of the sea. Manson has remained in ill-health below, nursed with care by Snipe. However, chlorine begins to leak from a site next to his bunk. Manson is overcome by the gas, and dies.

The storm is so bad that the captain of the salvage ship decides his own men are at risk, and abandons the salvage operation altogether. The three left in the submarine sense that there is no hope for them. The film ends with Armstrong reading from a naval prayer book.

From early scenes in the film, and from dialogue throughout, the viewer is given insights into the personal and home lives of the crew, their hopes, and their now thwarted ambitions. For example, Snipe is married to a wayward wife, whom he idolises; whilst Armstrong has been offered a lucrative shore job by his wealthy father-in-law, and had been planning to leave the Navy to take it up as soon as this patrol was over.