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Fighting Sea-Fleas

This wartime documentary from the Canada Carries On series explains the importance of the motor torpedo boats of the Royal Canadian Navy. Narrator Lorne Greene describes the fast, heavily armed boats. Explaining that they are only seventy feet long, he points out that the MTB's are able to challenge much larger enemy ships. Their crews, made up of young navy men from all over Canada, maintain them in constant readiness for the job of protecting Allied shipping routes. We see "Canada's Fighting Sea Fleas" in action against German E Boats.
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This wartime documentary from the Canada Carries On series explains the importance of the motor torpedo boats of the Royal Canadian Navy. Narrator Lorne Greene describes the fast, heavily armed boats. Explaining that they are only seventy feet long, he points out that the MTB's are able to challenge much larger enemy ships. Their crews, made up of young navy men from all over Canada, maintain them in constant readiness for the job of protecting Allied shipping routes. We see "Canada's Fighting Sea Fleas" in action against German E Boats.

War, Conflict and Peace - World War II Archival Films History - Canada - 1920-1945 Transportation All subjects
  • director
    Sydney Newman
    Julian Roffman
    Nicholas Read
  • producer
    Sydney Newman
    Julian Roffman
    Nicholas Read
  • script
    Sydney Newman
    Julian Roffman
    Nicholas Read
  • editing
    Sydney Newman
    Julian Roffman
    Nicholas Read
  • narrator
    Lorne Greene
Fighting Sea-Fleas
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