Maritime Films UK has had many good friends in the leadership of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, to whom we’ll always be so grateful. Here’s one of them – Nick Hewitt. Nick has seen through many of the toughest assignments at the museum, including LCT 7074 – though no-one’s task there is ever easy. Dealing with irreplaceable and large maritime artefacts, i.e. ships, makes walking on eggs a daily duty. Nick’s last achievement for the museum, in close co-ordination with the Coastal Forces Heritage Trust, has been to shepherd a brand new Coastal Forces Museum into the museum’s already comprehensive inventory. It’s at Priddy’s Hard, a former ammunition store across the water in Gosport from the museum’s HQ in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard – already the site of ‘Explosion’, their collection of naval firepower. So… first, get your ships!
COASTAL COMMEMORATION
01 May 2022
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About Rob
Rob is a TV producer, reporter and camera operator with 30 years’ experience at the BBC, Channel 4 and ITN, in news, factual and documentary production. He is a four times award winner, whose awards include a coveted Royal Television Society award for his work on Channel 4 News. His association with The Maritime Foundation goes back to 1995, when he won the first Desmond Wettern Maritime Media Award for a series of reports that led to a major documentary on the loss of the bulk carrier Derbyshire.