Damage Control | A Story of Seven Sailors (1944)

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Damage Control | A Story of Seven Sailors (1944)

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This Royal Navy instructional film was released in February 1944 to emphasise the need among serving personnel to understand the potential consequences of even minor negligent acts. The narrative walks viewers through the considerations and efforts behind building a heavy cruiser. It then details examples - such as leaving paint, books, towels and posters unsecured - presented potential risks in an emergency scenario. It shows how the cumulative effect of these mistakes impaired the fighting efficiency of the fictional cruiser "HMS Andromeda", turning minor battle damage into a critical situation - and preventing the cruiser from moving to intercept an enemy vessel.

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@hisdadjames4876 Жыл бұрын

Blame, criticism, mockery, fear, guilt….amazing how todays society finds these ‘negative’ yet powerful motivators so entirely unacceptable. How times change. 🤔

@juk-hw5lv 9 ай бұрын

Military and civilian life is different

@exJacktar Жыл бұрын

Retired RCN HT. This was excellent! So many things presented here are still valid today. Honestly, this could easily be shown to sailors at the DCTF without losing the value of what its teaching points are. Thanks for making this available.

@johnhuxley165 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your efforts that you put into sharing this. It’s much appreciated. Other than the interesting content, I work third shift and it’s such a thrill to get these posts late late at night or early in the morning. Helps me pass the shifts. Cheers!

@ArmouredCarriers Жыл бұрын

Thanks. These "black label" remasters mostly just take computer processing time. But I also try to make sure the frame doesn't cut out the center of focus or key details contained in the original box format. I won't be able to keep up the current rate of publication, though. I'm going through a backlog of material I've already processed to cut into my audio archive narratives.

@davidwhite6878 Жыл бұрын

@@ArmouredCarriersThe RAN was still using this as an instructional film during the early 70’s. I can remember watching it at the Damage Control School at HMAS Penguin during my initial NBCD Course.

@Opel314 Жыл бұрын

Excellent upload. Thanks for posting... and thanks for one of the very best channels on YT!

@Peorhum Жыл бұрын

There is a similar USN film, from the 1950s i think. It very much follows the storyline of this film, making the same points.

@Lockbar 4 ай бұрын

You are correct sir. The US Navy version is almost an exact copy. But also gets the points accross.

@ferney2936 Жыл бұрын

Interesting to see the camera lingered over the book 'No orchids for Miss blandish', a lurid & shocking book at the time. George Orwell wrote a scathing assessment of it in one of his essays. Also, in one scene I noticed the sailors were playing Ludo, "Uckers" in the Royal Navy which was almost a tradition by then.

@mh53j Жыл бұрын

Seen a picture of sailors doing the same during the Falklands.

@cliff8669 Жыл бұрын

Just being on a fully seaworthy ship on the ocean, you're already at a disadvantage. Throw those seven into the mix ... how long can you tread water? Regardless of the time this was made. It's still relevant today.

@JGCR59 Жыл бұрын

I suppose this is based on HMS Suffolk after bombarding Sola airfield in Norway 1940

@telesniper2 Жыл бұрын

Wow I didn't know the famous 1968 version was a remake

@edwardpate6128 Жыл бұрын

We don't go in for mass production. Well that sure didn't apply to things like the Fletcher and Spruance class destroyers or Gato/Balao class submarines.

@trevdestroyer8209 9 ай бұрын

Those are US ships this video is about the royal navy

@PeterPan-iz1kk Жыл бұрын

Based on The Ark Royal, is it?

@krautyvonlederhosen 9 ай бұрын

18 months just to launch a cruiser? Another year to be completely fitted out and she’s ready. If England had to rely on this time frame to build ships during WWII, small wonder they depended upon American mass production just to survive. At the rate U-boats would sink ships, that was no contest. And this film was made in ‘44.

@ArmouredCarriers 9 ай бұрын

Easy to forget the nation had been under air and sea blockade since September 1939, no? Does have a bit of a dampening effect on an economy, having to fight all those convoys across thousands of kilometres ...

@Peorhum 4 ай бұрын

@@ArmouredCarriers Also the US had 2 more years to get ready war compared to Britain. Most of US constructions still had the same construction times as the Britain but the US had more yards, totally safe from bombing, with most of the rare material in country. It wasn't until war production really got going and when the US used building method suggested by Britain that construction times were shorted so much. Around WW1, it was Britain that had the superior production times for ships, but she has worked her yards up to full scale production during the arms race and wasn't being bombed like in WW2.

@rodpettet2819 11 ай бұрын

I'm ex 1960s airforce. I always strongly maintain, frequently to ridicule that there is no such thing as an accident. There is always one or more persons to blame.