Recherche dans la collection - Episode 2, Glimpses of the British Navy in Wartime : [incomplete]

LOMBARD

1969-0030

Film

1 of 2

1917

Topical Film Company

producer, William F. Jury; photography, F.W. Engholm

War Office Cinema Committee

The second part of the episode on the British battle-cruiser squadron base at Rosyth, July and August 1917.~The second part of this episode focuses on the battle-cruiser force, starting with a view of HMS Lion. Footage shows: Admiral Beatty's dog; filing from a small boat in the harbour, the camera shows HMS Tiger, HMS Chester, with the 5.5-inch gun beside which Jack Cornwell died, and some of his shipmates; HMS Birmingham with a destroyer escort passing under a bridge; and the hospital ship HMS Garth Castle collecting wounded from a drifter, and unloading others onto the shore. The wounded are taken by train to a convalescent home. Nurses greet the wounded on the ship and train. Further footage shows: the HMS Yarmouth (possibly HMS Phaeton) at anchor; torpedoes being loaded and fired from the destroyer HMS Firedrake in rough weather; members of the crew display the ensign and a lifebelt captured from the submarine UC.5; and a King Edward VII Class battleship fires a broadside.

Silent with English intertitles

Libre

V1 8301-0005

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Under copyright.

Copyright owner: Imperial War Museum.

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