Amphibious Warfare: The Salvage Boat is one of a series of U.S. training films. This film discusses how salvage boats conduct their rescue operations. The film opens with footage of various landing craft hitting a beach and soldiers storming the beach. Several landing craft break down or are stranded (01:02). The film shows a salvage boat on the water (01:22) as well as a salvage boat LCPL (landing craft personal large) being lowered from a cruiser down to the water. The film provides an overview of the members of the crew on a salvage boat (02:13). A man preps a line-throwing gun (02:55). A salvage boat flies the sugar flag and cruises on the water toward a stranded boat (03:38). An aerial shot shows the salvage boat staying with its assigned assault boats (04:00); the salvage boat patrols behind the assault boats looking for stranded ships. An LCVP is stranded (04:50); the salvage boat moves to it on the down-current side. The crew of the LCVP take the heaving line and hook it to their boat; the salvage boat begins the extraction with its stern to sea. The salvage boat moves beyond the breakers (06:57), and its crew secure the rope to the towing bollard (a short, thick post on the deck of a ship or on a wharf, to which a ship’s rope may be secured) and slowly take up the slack. They slowly begin to tow the stranded boat (08:16). The salvage boat pulls in the tow rope and heaving line (09:04) after the LCVP is safely back in deep water. An LCM3 is stranded on the surf (09:33); the salvage boat approaches the LCM and uses a wired bridle to tow the stranded boat. The salvage boat moves in (11:01), tosses the heaving line, and the bridle is brought aboard the LCM and fastened to both sides of the stern. A second salvage boat joins the effort (13:33) by pulling the first salvage boat, which pulls the LCM until it is in deep enough water to float and return to duty. The film concludes with a shot of the salvage boat sailing off to help another stranded boat (15:18).

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