Thirty-five years ago Able Seaman Richard Baker arrived at Rosyth in Scotland to join the fleet mine-sweeper HMS Brave. Despite the discomforts, dangers and the appalling conditions on convoy runs to Russia, Baker formed a love for the sea and ships that's lasted down the years. When he came out of the Navy to a career in acting, music and BBC Television News, he decided to keep up his associations with the service through the Volunteer Reserve.
Earlier this year the Navy invited him to sail with the very latest thing they have to offer-a Task Force exercising in the Pacific off Central America. This film is a record of that journey. It's very much Richard Baker's story, but it also says something about the Navy's changing role and the new strategy that's come to dominate Admiralty thinking.
Film cameraman Nick Lera Film editor Noman Lowes Producer Gordon Carr