

17/09/1942
The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship’s first and only commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country, but—most importantly—to themselves.

Noël Coward
as Captain E. V. Kinross R.N. / Captain 'D'

John Mills
as Ordinary Seaman Blake / Shorty Blake

Bernard Miles
as Chief Petty Officer Hardy / Walter Hardy

Celia Johnson
as Mrs. Kinross / Alix

Kay Walsh
as Freda Lewis / Freda

Joyce Carey
as Mrs. Hardy / Kath

Derek Elphinstone
as No. 1

Michael Wilding
as Flags

Robert Sansom
as Guns

Philip Friend
as Torps

Chimmo Branson
as Midshipman

Ballard Berkeley
as Engineer Commander

Hubert Gregg
as Pilot

James Donald
as Doc

Michael Whittaker
as Sub

Kenneth Carten
as Sub-Lieutenant R.N.V.R.

John Varley
as Secco

Caven Watson
as Brodie

Geoffrey Hibbert
as Joey Mackeridge

Richard Attenborough
as Young Stoker

Frederick Piper
as Edgecombe

Lionel Grose
as Reynolds

Leslie Dwyer
as Parkinson

Charles Russell
as Fisher

John Singer
as Moran

Robert Moreton
as Coombe

John Boxer
as Hollett

Kenneth Evans
as Posty

Johnnie Schofield
as Coxswain

Franklyn Bennett
as Commander Spencer

Charles Compton
as № 1. "Tremoyne"

Walter Fitzgerald
as Colonel Lumsden

Gerald Case
as Jasper

Daniel Massey
as Bobby Kinross

Ann Stephens
as Lavinia Kinross

Kathleen Harrison
as Mrs. Blake

Dora Gregory
as Mrs. Lemmon

Penelope Dudley-Ward
as Maureen

Barbara Waring
as Mrs. Macadoo

Eileen Peel
as Mrs. Farrell

Lesley Osmond
as Nell Fosdick

Josie Welford
as Emily

Kay Young
as Barmaid

Trixie Scales
as Mona Duke

George Carney
as Mr. Blake

Wally Patch
as Uncle Fred

Michael Anderson
as Albert Fosdick

Jill Stephens
as May Blake

Everley Gregg
as Nurse

Roddy Hughes
as Photographer

Norman Pierce
as Mr. Satterthwaite

Juliet Mills
as Freda's Baby

Leslie Howard
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
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