Title:HMS SOUTHAMPTON IN CONSTRUCTION AND AT SEA 1936/8 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MGH 684
Other titles:COMMANDER BRIGGS COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Edited colour film taken by Lieutenant-Commander Briggs of the building and operation of HMS Southampton 1936/8.
Description: This film begins with workers constructing HMS Southampton, a Town Class cruiser, in John Brown's Yard on Clydeside 1936/7. The new Cunard liner, Queen Mary, is also seen on the Clyde. There is then a very thorough sequence showing sea trials off Scotland including shots of the engines, the firing of guns, etc. There follows material of the Royal Review at Spithead on 20 May 1937 including George VI on the Southampton. There are then shots at sea in Torbay and in the Atlantic featuring a refuelling at sea sequence, and the catapulting, flight and retrieval of a Walrus sea-plane off the Southampton. There are shots of fleet Navy Weeks (at Southampton and Chatham) and of the fleet assembled (at Invergordon and Torbay). There is a sequence of the Southampton picking up refugees fleeing from Franco off the North Spanish coast including a black and white extract from a Gaumont British newsreel.
Alternative Title:COMMANDER BRIGGS COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
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Object_Number:MGH 684
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:1938
Production Country: GB
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Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour
Sound format: Silent
Soundtrack language: None
Title language: English
Subtitle language: English
Technical Details: Format: 16mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 920 ft; Running time: 25 mins
