Training a navy

Place Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Mornington Peninsula, Westernport, Flinders Naval Depot, HMAS Cerberus
Accession Number F10297
Collection type Film
Measurement 11 min 51 sec
Object type To be confirmed
Physical description 16mm/Colour/sound
Maker Defence Public Relations (DPR)
Place made Australia: Victoria, Mornington Peninsula, Westernport, Flinders Naval Depot, HMAS Cerberus
Date made 1971
Access Open
Conflict Period 1970-1979
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

HMAS Cerberus, the Royal Australian Navy's main training station at Westernport, Victoria. Scenes of various training courses and facilities run in the early 1970s. This includes recreational boating and sporting activities, electrical engineering school, internal combustion engine school, gunnery and small arms theory, physical instructors course, cookery school, medical school and Navy school of music. Various navy ships and aircraft of that era are shown.

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