Summary: An account of the history and qualities of Scapa Flow as a naval base compiled from authentic film, photographs and prints, and the "recollections of the men and women who served in Two World Wars", narrated by Ludovic Kennedy.
Description: The road to Scapa Flow; "safe anchorage for a thousand ships"; the Orkneys; Grand Fleet 1914; waiting role; lack of defences, equipment and comforts; "world without women"; Jellicoe and Jutland; "the next time never came"; death of Kitchener; HMS Vanguard explodes; Americans; Victory; surrender of High Seas Fleet - scuttled; inter-war salvage; 1938 reservists called up; role of Home Fleet at Scapa Flow; Royal Oak sunk by U-47; concrete causeways built; the Italian's chapel; boredom, isolation, concert parties; Norway campaign; Fleet Air Arm and Wrens; convoys to Murmansk; 1945 "the Flow was quiet again"; salvage; the dead - "what did their deaths achieve?" - and end to oppression.
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Colour:B&W
Digitised:No
Object_Number:MGH 307
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
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Production Date:1966-12-29
Production Country: GB
Production Details: BBC Television (Production company)
Brown, Malcolm (Production individual)
Brown, Malcolm (Production individual)
Kennedy, Ludovic Henry Coverley (Production cast)
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Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Technical Details: Format: 16mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 2000 ft; Running time: 55 mins
