Forgot to mention that there are copies at the IWM and BFI, although its beyond me why anyone would want to retain the movie!

Doctor at Sea - Film made in 1955 was set on a cargo ship carrying passengers and screen clips do show parts of an actual ship in the background.

Doctor at Sea - Tv Series of 13, made in 1974 was set on a cruise ship and probably used studio sets.

Doctor at Sea movie 1955 mentions a ship named Achilles (not HMS). I think they were referring to one of the Achilles Class like this one >

Or perhaps this one, the funnel is a better match for the screen shot I have seen.

Think there is a shot of the ship used in the1955 film Doctor At Sea passing through the Corinth Canal.
Not having seen the film in a very very long time thought there might have been a shot of a Banana Boat in the Royal Albert Dock in one scene?

Achilles >

I watched a daft film on the telly last night called Hitman: Agent 47. What was fascinating was much of it was filmed in Singapore, a city which I thought I knew a bit about.

I paid of my very last ship, a CP product tanker, in Singapore in 1986. Curiously I joined my first CP ship, also a product tanker, in Singapore in 1976. My last ten years at sea were bookended by that city.

From the film, made a few years ago, the city has clearly changed … A LOT !! :eek:

I watched a re-run of the 1968 film 2001:A Space Odyssey the other night and was thinking about the ship in that film, the Discovery. (Hard to believe the film is 50 years old.)

On threads in the ‘other place’ there is much debate on fully automated ships. I got to thinking about the ship in this film, which although does carry a crew, is pretty much controlled and monitored by a central computer, the infamous HAL 9000.

There were problems .. :huh:

HAL basically went psycho, not something you would ever have expected from say a Decca autopilot. :eek:

Many people have noted that the name HAL is a one letter code shift backwards from IBM. A lot of people have told me this was deliberate. However I have a paperback about the making of 2001 which I bought decades ago (published in 1970) which starts with Arthur C. Clarke’s short story ‘The Sentinel’ on which certainly the first part of the film is based.

In the book Arthur C. Clarke firmly states that HAL was not a deliberate code shift from IBM. In fact he states the name HAL was derived from Heuristic Algorithm, think of it as a sort of computer program that learns and has hunches. Of course himself and Stanley Kubrick might have just been saying that in case IBM took umbrage at being associated with a completely round the bend nut job computer like HAL.

She was the Agamemnon. I don't recall what line she sailed for and I am on vacation and away from all my references. I tried googling her and she was one of two sisters, the other being Achilleus.

Do you mean this one >

No. She was the one at this link:

http://www.royalchronicles.gr/wp-con...MEMNON1953.jpg

Sister ship ACHILLEUS >

Caught the end of the 1955 film "The Cockleshell Heroes" on TV yesterday, some views of what I believe were the Royal docks in London portraying the occupied port in France. A number of ships in port, even what looked like an old SUN tug.
A bit before my interest in ships but I do remember when the docks were busy.