Navy takes women on board
- Title
- Navy takes women on board
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- Unknown
- Year of production
- 1990
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- Duration
- 00:08:01
- Description
- HMS Brilliant is laying to rest a Navy tradition of having no women on board, they may even be going to the frontline in the Gulf crisis. Here are a series of interviews with WRNs onboard, unidentified apart from Helen Smithers who speaks on on her role in radar. Male interviewer not identified.
- Contributors
- Helen Smithers
- Keywords
- Women; Equal opportunity; Navy; Gulf War (1990-1991); Naval personnel; HMS Brilliant; Tradition
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LBC/IRN, "Navy takes women on board". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0010900564011 (Accessed 18 Mar 2026)