Tanker (1971)

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  • Release Date: 1st January 1971
  • Asset ID: 802335
  • Synopsis: This film follows the 38 strong crew of the BP tanker "British Explorer". It looks at the various roles each of the crew undertakes, the lives they lead on the ship both at work and free time and their personal reasons for going to sea, as well as looking at the ship itself and how the crew works with and within it.
  • Shotlist: Sea; CUs of turbine; Captain Ronald Friendship at desk with map; trav shot along and aerial of ‘British Explorer’ at sea; Chief Officer Richard Higgins; 2nd Officer Geoffrey Gamble; 3rd office Fraser Betts; Chief Engineer William Dickinson; General purpose seaman Sammy O’Toole; navigating cadet Michael Gibbon; chopper lands supplies on ship; captain in his office, view out of window; engineering room, CUs of turbine, Dickinson walking around engineering room; 03:00:11 Higgins using calculator and using computer stress finder to work out safe limits of ship bending; pipes on ship; engineers in engineering room; making water from sea water and testing for contamination; Betts in control room of ship; view from control room; Betts looking through binoculars; WS vessel at sea; Betts on radio in control room; view of rough sea from control room; 03:05:18 crew eating dinner; HA pan over ship; twisting wire; pulling rope; Gibbon reading; Higgins and Gibbon looking through binoculars and in control room, plotting ship on chart; boiler room; control room; electronic devices; 03:11:27 sunbathing on deck; GVs men working on ship; Higgins checking deck; painting BP sign on ship; 03:14:25 party on board; chef in kitchen; Sammy O’Toole rolling cigarette in control room; bedroom; reading; showering; O’Toole walking along deck at night; aerial over ship at sea in daytime; 03:18:24 END
  • Production Company: None
  • Licensing Restrictions: Music, Artiste
  • Viewing Restrictions: Public
  • Format: BetaSP_Small
  • Alternative Language Notes: None