Truculent Returns To Port (1950)

Full title reads: “Truculent Returns To Port“. Off Sheerness, Kent. The sunk submarine HMS Truculent is salvaged by 2 German lifting ships. SV Wreck buoy. LV salvage ships clustered over spot where ’HMS Truculent’ was sunk. SV The salvage ship ’Ausdauer’. SV Lines being thrown from salvage vessel to diver’s launch. MV Steel hawsers from end of lifting ships into sea. MV Sir Henry Moore, C-in-C The Nore, aboard a salvage vessel. CU Sir Henry Moore giving order to start salvage operations. MV Mate on salvage vessel ordering winches to start. SV Winches under way. MV Hawsers from salvage ships straining under lift. SV Turbulent water. SV Seaman pulling cable on salvage ship. SV Deck man signalling to winch pan to mate looking into water. MV Periscope emerging from sea. MV Seaman pulling on hawsers. MV Periscope and conning tower above water. MV Winch at work. MV Bows of submarine visible. CU Name - ’Truculent’. MV Whole of submarine now on surface. LV Salvage ships with lights. Truculent lying on surface i
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