Most of you've seen the commissioning program published in Plymouth General Orders. And...
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Captain Edward V. Kinross:
Most of you've seen the commissioning program published in Plymouth General Orders. And you will have noted that this allows the customary three weeks. Well, you've all read your papers and you know that Ribbentrop signed a non-aggression pact with Stalin yesterday. As I see it, that means war next week. So I will give you not three weeks but exactly three days to get this ship ready to sail. None of us will turn in or take our clothes off or sling our hammocks for the next three days or nights till the job's finished. Then we'll send Hitler a telegram saying, "The Torrin's ready. You can start your war."
Most of you've seen the commissioning program published in Plymouth General Orders. And you will have noted that this allows the customary three weeks. Well, you've all read your papers and you know that Ribbentrop signed a non-aggression pact with Stalin yesterday. As I see it, that means war next week. So I will give you not three weeks but exactly three days to get this ship ready to sail. None of us will turn in or take our clothes off or sling our hammocks for the next three days or nights till the job's finished. Then we'll send Hitler a telegram saying, "The Torrin's ready. You can start your war."
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You've most of you seen the commissioning program of the torrin
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Published in Plymouth general orders
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And you will have noted that this allows the customary three weeks
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Well you've all read your papers
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And you know that ribbentrop signed a nonagression pact with Stalin yesterday
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As I see it that means war next week
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So I will give you not three weeks but exactly three days to get this ship ready to sail
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None of us will turn in or take our clothes off or sling our hammocks
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For the next three days and nights till the job's finished
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Then we'll send Hitler a telegram saying the torrin's ready You can start your warl
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Movie Summary
This "story of a ship", the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft.
