# ROYAL NAVY HMS COLLINGWOOD MARITIME WARFARE SCHOOL SHORE ESTABLISHMENT 52944

Dating to the 1970s, this Royal Navy recruiting film shows HMS Collingwood, a so-called "stone frigate" or shore establishment located in Fareham, England. HMS Collingwood is the lead establishment of the Maritime Warfare School and the largest naval training organization in Western Europe. The Maritime Warfare School is a federated training establishment incorporating HMS Excellent, the Defence Diving School, the RN Physical Training School, the School of Hydrography and Meteorology in Plymouth and the Royal Marines School of Music in Portsmouth Naval Base. The film shows student recruits at the shore establishment studying electronics, radio, ordnance, and control. Each rating undergoes a 6-week course during the first year of RN training. An radio apprentice is shown assembling an oscilloscope from scratch ( 3:33 ) and then going through a problem solving drill. At ( 4:00 ), a control apprentice is seen maintaining a ship's phonograph / record player, while ordnance men move gun barrels into position. At ( 6:43 ), a Seacat missile system launcher and director are seen being examined by apprentices. The Seaslug is seen at 7:27 , being gone over by electrical trainees, and a launch at sea is shown as the film concludes. More on this ... HMS Collingwood gained its name from Lord Collingwood, a distinguished admiral at the turn of the 19th century. The current shore establishment was commissioned as the fourth HMS Collingwood on 10 January 1940, initially to instruct…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/52944HMSCollenwood)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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