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Title:MISCELLANEOUS FIRST WORLD WAR NAVAL MATERIAL 11 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:IWM 1159
Other titles:
Summary: Collection of miscellaneous naval scenes from the First World War.
Description: I. Commander Taussig USN disembarks from USS Wadsworth. Vice-Admiral Bayly, back to the camera, greets the Commander and his officers (cf IWM 562).
II. Harwich. Medium close-up track from port bow to stern past five U-boats moored together after surrender - UB.143 with a U.23 and UC.III Class boats. Long shot along rows of moored U-boats, stern on to the camera - the nearest group consists of a UC.III and two U.105 Class (?) submarines.
III. Queenstown. USS Wadsworth (60) and USS Porter (59) pass by. Medium shot of US destroyers in line astern at sea - USS Davis (65) is in the van.
IV. U-boat crews being repatriated - High-angle medium shot as German sailors come onboard cameraship from Motor Launch. Medium shot off the port beam of SMS Koenigsberg. Medium close-up of submarine UC.58 from a launch closing on the port quarter (cf IWM 1154), and then making off on the same bearing. Long shot from a vessel steaming between two lines of surrendered U-boats.
V. Repeated medium shot of an explosion at sea - the detonation of a mine (cf IWM 551/6).
VI. Medium shot as SMS Derfflinger passes right to left (cf IWM 571). End frame shows amidships, portside of a Kaiser Class battleship (Kaiser or Friedrich der Grosse).
Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor)
Engholm, F W (Production company)
Engholm, F W (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Taussig, J K (person)
United States Navy & Destroyer Div 8 (regiment/service)
United States Navy & Wadsworth (regiment/service)
United States Navy & Porter (regiment/service)
United States Navy, USS DAVIS, destroyer (1916) (regiment/service)
German Imperial Navy, Koenigsberg (regiment/service)
German Imperial Navy, UB143 (regiment/service)
German Imperial Navy, UC58 (regiment/service)
German Imperial Navy, Derfflinger (regiment/service)
Keywords: ships, United States naval - destroyer: Wadsworth (60) (object name)
ships, United States naval - destroyer: Porter (59) (object name)
ships, United States naval - destroyer: Davis (65) (object name)
ships, German naval - battleship: Derfflinger & [surrendered] (object name)
ships, German naval - battleship: Kaiser Class & [surrendered] (object name)
ships, German naval - submarine: UB143 & [surrendered] (object name)
ships, German naval - submarine: UC58 & [surrendered] (object name)
ships, German naval - submarine: U23 Class & [surrendered] (object name)
ships, German naval - submarine: UCIII Class & [surrendered] (object name)
12/3(261.2) (event)
First World War, Armistice & German Navy, Internment of & 11/1918 (event)
GB, Ireland & Queenstown, Co Cork (geography)