captain_spalding said:
btm said:So that scene in Titanic where the first mate calls “Hard to port” and the helmsman wrenches the wheel to right is actually correct.
I just remembered:
many years ago, the patrol boat that i was in was the one in the first series of ABC’s ‘Patrol Boat’.
We had a day out at the ABC studios, where we got to see the ‘interior’ side of things. Parts of the patrol boat interior ‘rebuilt’ (to an astonishing degree of accuracy) inside the studio for filming inside scenes, a cave made of ‘rocks’ and ‘boulders’ that you could lift with one hand, etc.
We also saw things like the sound and dubbing studios, and the film editing studio.
They ran a segment of film of an upcoming episode for us, to show what it was like in its ‘raw’ state and in its ‘edited’ state. When they ran the ‘edited’ and dubbed version we roared with laughter, because the voice-over order was ‘starboard fifteen’ and the boat immediately turned to port.
The editors were puzzled until it was explained. They hadn’t been aware of the discrepancy. They were grateful, and said that they could just ‘flip’ the video.
Then it was off to the pub at French’s Forest, for a booze-up with the cast.
She has her own Wikipedia entry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS_Advance
HMAS Advance (P 83) was an Attack-class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Constructed during 1967 and commissioned into the RAN in 1968, Advance operated from Darwin and patrolled northern Australian waters.
During her career, the patrol boat shadowed a Soviet trawler, survived Cyclone Tracy, was used for filming of the television series Patrol Boat, and participated in the RAN’s first anti-terrorism patrol of the North West Shelf. Advance was replaced in 1980, but continued to operate as a training ship until she was decommissioned in 1988.
Advance was donated to the Australian National Maritime Museum, which has maintained her in an operational condition.
