MISCELLANEOUS FIRST WORLD WAR NAVAL MATERIAL 17 [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: MISCELLANEOUS FIRST WORLD WAR NAVAL MATERIAL 17 [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 1165
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  • Summary: Scenes onboard HMS Canada.
  • Description: Medium shot from the focsle to A and B turrets and bridge - a canvas hatch tent is in the immediate foreground. Starboard barrel of A turret elevates, and port semaphore begins signalling. Camera pans right to show ship's boat being lifted inboard by a derrick - crewmen come forward to secure the wire rope around a bollard in the foreground. Pan down from the foremast control top to A turret, and right, to the portside of the ship, where a paravane is being hoisted outboard on a davit (cf IWM 591).
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 1165
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor) Engholm, F W (Production company) Engholm, F W (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Navy, CANADA (HMS), battleship (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: ships, British naval - battleship: Canada (object name) communications, British naval - direct: semaphore (object name) equipment, British naval - damage control: paravane (object name) operations, British naval - mines: clearance (object name) weapons, British naval - gun: 15-inch (object name) 12/3(261.2) (event)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 116 ft; Running time: 2 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 1165

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