HMS Glamorgan - Computer Ship Of The Future (1967)

English Channel.
Top shots of the guided missile destroyer battleship HMS Glamorgan at sea. In the control / computer room a man pulls out old-fashioned computer records from a large control cupboard; officers on the bridge look at dials and through binoculars. Various shots in steering, control and engine rooms as the ship moves along. On the flight deck sailors play hockey while others watch and cheer them on. A Navigator on deck looks through a sextant while another officer makes notes. A helicopter is moved from a hanger out onto the deck and prepared for takeoff; firemen in asbestos suits and helmets stand by with a hose; the chopper takes off.
Three young men play guitars and banjos before a television camera in a tiny studio; we hear that the ship has its own closed circuit TV station; good shots of the filming; tape recording machines going round; picture being adjusted. Men in a mess room watch the performance on the television while they have a pint. Several shots of the sailors getting their rum rations. Various shots in the kitchens show food being prepared and served into the sailors mess tins; good canteen and catering shots (most of the food looks pretty unappetising). In the sick bay a sailor gets a shot in the arm from a Naval doctor.
Several shots of the radar antennae on the ship and the men looking at the radar scanner screens in the control room. Men in protective gloves and hood loads shells in the gun turret; M/Ss of the huge guns on the ship being fired. Several shots show the count down for Seaslug missiles to be fired; men at control panels look at dials and radar screens; an officer counts down into a microphone (mute). Complicated boards of buttons show the location of the missiles, intercut with shots of the missiles moving into position by electronic instruction. The missiles move into the launchers on deck and are fired; men watch their progress on a radar screen. Another launcher moves into position; L/S of the ship as the missiles are fired.
Note: on file is correspondence and information about HMS Glamorgan. Cuts exist - see separate record.
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[@raybin6873]

Very hi-tech ship indeed! Those removable electronic circuit board cards - state of the art technology! Tho nowadays a $25 Aurduino Raspberry hobby programmable mini-computer would run circles around it....😀👍

[@B1900pilot]

Interesting hangar configuration on these ships

[@PosthumousAddress]

Lol @ 6:10 how they add all these beeps and bloops to make it seem even more futuristic

[@rikeralpha100]

That's the sound of the future 🚀

[@ricardodipasquo164]

Danger exocet!!!

[@mrzoperxplex]

The Seaslug was unquestionably the most bizarre looking missile ever built.

[@raybin6873]

It had "looks" that could kill...😄

[@KJs581]

The huge lattice launcher and the name did it no favours. Calling a missile "seaslug" doesn't make anyone think "sleak/deadly." 🙂

[@deefenbakerone4369]

Featured in an episode of UFO...

[@clacicle]

Yeah, but those sound effects were cool.

[@carlstratford2228]

@@deefenbakerone4369 Captained by Philip Madoc! UFO episode 'Destruction'.

[@SteamboatWilley]

HMS Glamorgan; the only ship to survive a strike from an Exocet missile in the Falklands war.

[@leandrocaricato3259]

Survived but was put out of combat with an Exocet hand modified by an argentinian engineer to be able to shoot it from land. You should look for that history, it's amazing.

[@SteamboatWilley]

@@leandrocaricato3259 It is amazing. I read "Ordeal by Exocet" by Ian Inskip (who was one of the officers on the ship). It's a great book and worth reading.

[@jordanlt69]

@@SteamboatWilley I have that book signed with a message from Ian, and my Dad who was on the Glamorgan has a piece of the Exocet missile from that day.

[@stephenchappell7512]

Big enough to take a hit

[@teddy2738]

Buque duro ... la ACH lo compró después de la Guerra de las islas Falklands en 1986 y lo mantuvo en servicio hasta 1998 , dónde lo dio de baja .🇬🇧🇨🇱🤝👀 pd : La Royal Navy en los años 70s. le retiró la segunda torreta y le instaló un Lanzamisiles Exocet MM-38 .

[@KJs581]

Love this. Early on served in Darings and Type 12's (RAN) , so a lot of these internals/fittings look similar.

[@PosthumousAddress]

Wonderful, just superb. Thank you so much for posting this. It is interesting that it was around this time that they were actually trying to attract working class lads by the conditions of service, not because they didn't have a choice anymore. My grandfather got out as a Lieutenant-Comamnder in the early 60s, and the pay and conditions were quite poor compared to what could be earned in private industry. When he entered the navy in 1945, the conditions were very bad for enlisted

[@ukchris64]

These Destroyers always looked good, how would they have stacked up against todays type 45's

[@zidela]

The guns shooting are not from Glamorgan they are 6in guns from a Tiger class cruiser.

[@TalkernateHistory]

If you look closely, you can tell the missiles that get loaded are not the same that get fired. They change color.

[@KJs581]

Warshots always a different colour from drill or "harbour/dress ship" missiles, same as any ordnance. We had black wooden Seacat dummies for entering harbour.@@TalkernateHistory

[@ricardovelasco3976]

I say, jolly good show!

[@stephennelmes4557]

Enjoy that Rum ration lads, Aggie Weston is going to stop that soon.

[@davidkent4825]

The WAFU'S would feel a bit uncomfortable on a small real fighting canoe.

[@Mr.1.i]

Asbestos fire suits

[@tomwotton9]

Six Helicopters?!

[@SM-dt1pr]

Wessex helicopter.

[@tomwotton9]

@@SM-dt1pr Ahh, thank you.

[@stephenbrooks1354]

Typical I am ex Rn

[@peterhall728]

in 2024 ,this is still the Royal Navy's most advanced warship .

[@tmanthemost1157]

Just wait another 15 years 😁🇦🇷

[@Autofleet4429]

Remind me who won the war again?

[@PotatoSalad614]

….For another British victory

[@jelly.212]

@@Autofleet4429 Stalemate

[@tmanthemost1157]

@@bshaw71 as good as your mom is