Cleaning Up HMS Daring For Royal Visit (1953)

Unissued / unused footage - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown. Cleaning up HMS Daring for Royal Visit. Greece. Boy Seaman Hardiman and Ordinary Seaman Tyrer. Scraping the beading. P/O Kelly of Peckham and A/B Reeve of Leamington Spa. Cleaning barrels of 4.5 guns. Shots, cleaning up A/A guns. A/B Walton of Leicester scrubs a gun turret. Two seamen working on float. C/U of A/B Clewes of Manchester. A/B Pritchard of Birmingham polishes guns with electrical device. General view of ships crew working on the bows. Wounded earthquake victims are brought aboard HMS Daring prior to ship leaving Argostori - six stretcher cases and three walking (various shots). Ships crew hauling on lines, prior to ship leaving for Zanthe (night). Patras, to off-load wounded, and Athens. M/S of men standing to attention as ship leaves. L/S of sinking sun as ship leaves Cephalonia. Some shots from above bridge as HMS Daring approaches the Corinth Canal. Various shots of Corinth Canal as HMS Daring