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John Mundya on broadside warship weapons (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
John Munday of the National Maritime Museum on the history of broadside warship weapons. He says the biggest shot fired from a battleship weighed 42 pounds. Male interviewer not identified.
HMS London fires last broadside (1981)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the last firing of the broadside on HMS London. Includes interviews with naval historian John Munday of the National Maritime Museum, about the history of the broadside; former sailor John Riggs,...
Flower of the fleet (1982)
- Genre
- Documentary; Interview; Special
Henry VIII’s flagship, the Mary Rose, lay forgotten in the mud of the Solent for 400 years after being sunk during an attack on Portsmouth by the French. Here we get an account of why and how she sank, and...
Holland 1 submarine resurfaces (1982)
- Genre
- Interview
Richard Compton-Hall, curator of the Royal Navy Submarine Museum at Gosport in Hampshire, on the resurfacing of Britain’s oldest submarine, Holland 1. Male interviewer not identified.