MINESWEEPING OPERATIONS AT CHINNAMPO HARBOR, KOREA Part 1

Description

MCU Minesweeping gear wire being payed out aboard the USS GULL (AMS-16); GULL is rigging magnetic type minesweeping gear (MV's, from CU's to GV) (taken from aboard an LCP(L).GV LCVP streaming minesweeping gear.MCU "Cutters" being attached to wire aboard the LCP(L).GV "Cutter" being dropped into the water.GV "Depressor" being dropped into the water from the LCP(L) and being payed out.CU Negro sailor.MCU "Depressor" being hoisted in aboard the LCPL.MCU Officer being hoisted up to a helicopter; helicopter gets underway, pulling officer into plane.MS UDT *1 aboard the LCP(L); small sub-machine gun shown.CU Officer of UDT-1 talking on telephone.MS "Pig" coming alongside and being hoisted aboard.CU "Pig" being hoisted aboard the GULL (SV).GV Two men working on mine marker bu.CU Same.MCU "Pig" alongside the GULL.MS "Pig" trailing alongside the stern of the GULL (taken from an LCP(L).MS "Depressor" being dropped astern of the GULL.GV GULL underway; "pig" being trailed in FG.GV Crew members on stern of the GULL.GV Men of UDT-1 at muster on the deck of the USS HORACE A. BASS (APD-124); men are receiving their daily job assignments (SV).MS PAN Faces of the UDT-1; all are laughing.MS PAN Faces of the UDT-1.GV DA Two LCVP's backing out of the well of the USS CATAMOUNT (LSD-17); 3 other LCVP's in FG.GV LTCDR W. E. H. RODWELL (Royal Navy), CDR S. M. ARCHER, LTCDR D.C. DeFORST, and CDR D. M. SHEA on bridge of the USS FOREST ROYAL (DD-872) checking map of area to be mineswept.GV UDT-1 in bow area of an LCP(L).MCU Steam hose unfreezing valves for last tanks aboard the USS CATAMOUNT (SV).GV LCP(L) underway;UDT in forward area (bow view).QUALITY GOOD TO FAIRMCU Large rock attached to a line being thrown over the side; at end of line is a 5" powder can painted white, which is a makeshift buoy.LS "Pig" being hoisted over the side aboard the GULL.GV "Pig" trailing behind the GULL.MS "Pig" streaming (flag flying atop).GV "Cutter" being lowered on wire.GV Minesweep personnel on the stern of the USS GULL.

Collection

General Records of the Department of the Navy

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities