Title:THE STORY OF HMS VINDICTIVE AT OSTEND [Main Title]
Film Number:IWM 1105
Other titles:
Summary: Film showing HMS Vindictive and other naval vessels of the type used in the raid on Ostend, 10 May 1918.
Description: HMS Vindictive in port prior to the operation. Pan over moored motor launches as they prepare for sea. High-angle medium shot of coastal motor boat showing smoke dischargers. Dunkirk: long shot of the French coast. British destroyers search out the enemy: Broke Class Leader followed by M Class, and destroyers in line astern laying smoke, signalling by searchlight. CMBs pass camera at speed. ML.558 approaches to semaphore. MLs make smoke. Long shot profile of a hospital ship - CMB in the foreground. Monitors: stern to bow track past Lord Clive Class monitor; second Lord Clive bows-on; medium shot to stern of Erebus Class monitor. The scene shifts to the cooperating land and air forces - various shots of Allied 12-, 9.2- and 7.5-inch coastal batteries and their crews, pilots being briefed and aircraft bombed up. Medium shot profile of flagship, HMS Warwick. French Hurricane Deck Type destroyer cooperates with British Admiralty M Class ships. Concluding sequence showing close-ups of HMS Vindictive, with the "honourable wounds" received in the Zeebrugge raid of 23 April, and the officers who participated in the operation. "What the efforts of the British Navy stand for": German flag is struck, and the White Ensign raised in its stead.
Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor)
Engholm, F W (Production company)
Engholm, F W (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Sandford, F H (person)
Lynes, H (person)
Clark, F H (person)
Hamilton-Benn, Ion (person)
Bourke, Roland Richard Louis (person)
Keyes, Roger John Brownlow (person)
Royal Navy, Vindictive (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, ML558 (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Nugent (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, MOORSOM (HMS) (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Warwick (regiment/service)
Keywords: ships, British naval - cruiser: Vindictive (object name)
ships, British naval - cruiser: Warwick (object name)
ships, British naval - gunship: Lord Clive Class (object name)
ships, British naval - gunship: Erebus Class (object name)
ships, British naval - destroyer: Nugent (F.54) (object name)
ships, British naval - destroyer: Moorsom (H.84) (object name)
ships, British naval - destroyer: Broke Class Leader (object name)
ships, British naval - destroyer: V/W Class (object name)
ships, British naval - destroyer: Hawthorn M Class (object name)
ships, British naval - light forces: ML558 (object name)
ships, British naval - light forces: Coastal Motor Boat (object name)
ships, French naval - destroyer: Claymore Class (object name)
weapons, British - gun: 7.5-inch coastal gun (object name)
weapons, British - gun: 9.2-inch coastal gun (object name)
weapons, British - gun: 12-inch coastal gun (object name)
weapons, British naval - CBW: smokescreen (object name)
12/3(261.2).841 (event)
12/3(261.2).842 (event)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Silent
Soundtrack language: None
Title language: English
Subtitle language: English
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 1463 ft; Running time: 24 mins