Excellent Colour Footage of HMS Victorious in the early 60's

[sketchy74]

I came across this documentary called "Floating Fortress" about HMS Victorious. It was filmed in the Med in the early 1960's when she was operating Venom's, Scimiters, and Whirlwinds. It was directed by Michael Winner and oddly enough for the time uses an American for the narration. Its fantastic quality colour footage considering the age of when it was shot, its basically a one episode version of Sailor but for the Vic instead. It has some great footage of Malta too for all you that put time in there over the years.

I am told that this program is doing the rounds on Sky right now, however being in the USofA I cannot verify that, it was on Youtube but was recently pulled due to copyright infringement so perhaps they are looking to release it.

Here are the links:

Part 1
http://www.findinternettv.com/watch/flo ... 861188046/

Part 2
http://www.findinternettv.com/watch/flo ... 215924675/

Enjoy!

Fraser.

[DarrenL]

Firefox + Downloadhelper plugin = downloadable video to watch offline when it's get taken down from Live Leak

[sketchy74]

Darren

You star! I was going to "KeepVid" it from YouTube but it was pulled, glad you have a suggestion for this site!

Thanks mate!

This is all very good reference for something that is WIP on the Hard drive right now.

Fras.

[FlyTexas]

Sun bathing on the deck - drinking rum - visiting exotic ports of call, it's amazing that Dave Booker ever wanted to leave the RN. Great videos Fraser...thanks for posting the links.

Brian

[Tako_Kichi]

Firefox + Downloadhelper plugin = downloadable video to watch offline when it's get taken down from Live Leak

Got to agree with Fras on this one as I didn't know about that plugin. Thanks and have one of these.

[DaveB]

Sun bathing on the deck - drinking rum - visiting exotic ports of call, it's amazing that Dave Booker ever wanted to leave the RN.

Well.. sun bathing is one thing, visiting exotic ports of call is another but drinking rum stopped in the early 70's and I never saw it.. a good enough reason to leave if ever there was one

I dunno about exotic ports of call either. Very few places over my 16years would classify as exotic.. different, yes.. exotic.. err.. no Add to that Brian, remember our ships of the 60's/70's/80's were designed to combat the 'Red' oppressors of the old USSR so below deck, you cooked in the right (or wrong) part of the world. We had heaters (suitable for the North Sea/Baltic e t c) but NO aircon

ATB
DaveB

[dodger]

Hi Fraser,

Thanks for posting the link, that was very interesting and reminded me of the days in the late 50's and early 60's when i worked in the Dockyard in Chatham, all the hustle and bustle of the Navy with ships being in for refit etc , my how things have changed there now and Robert Beatty was Canadian and a well know film actor of the time so thats proberly why they picked him to narrate the film, [another load of useless info]

DaveB, did you visit Chatham at all in your time?

Cheers,

Roger.

[sketchy74]

Robert Beatty was Canadian and a well know film actor of the time so thats proberly why they picked him to narrate the film, [another load of useless info]

Oops!.. he was Canadian!!

For a Brit, living in American and working for a Canadian Company I would be fired for making a mistake like that if they knew around here!! Shh!

[dodger]

Hi Fraser,

Your safe here mate

Thats a lot different where you are after Cornwall, do you get to visit ?

My Daughter lives in Perranporth and my Grandsons live and work in Launceston and i used to live in Devon, lovely part of the world,

Cheers,

Roger.

[TobyV]

I looked up HMS Victorious and found out it was actually ordered pre-WWII. (Apologies to all those that knew that, although I had a suspicion). They talk about it as if it had been built the year before (ok, it had had a major refit). If only we had something of that size today, I could see it being useful.