JUTLAND AND AFTER 2 [Allocated Title]

Miscellaneous British naval material, 1916-1918.

I. Medium shot forward along portside of W Class destroyer to HMS Renown - a small boat spins past between the two ships. Medium long shot across fleet anchorage - Iron Duke Class battleships at frame left. Camera tracks from starboard to port bow of HMS Furious - dazzle-painted HMS Argus in the background. Medium shot of SMS Koenigsberg (II), with ML.72 alongside. II. Unsteady medium shot as a merchantman crosses frame left to right. III. Medium shot off port quarter of an Iron Duke Class battleship, and pan to other battleships in the Forth anchorage. IV. Medium shot as camera tracks past torpedoed merchantman lying on its beam ends - waves break over the hull. V. Medium close-up from HMS Queen Elizabeth as ML.72 approaches, and Admiral Meurer and staff come onboard. Medium shots of Koenigsberg underway with British escort. VI. HMS Paladin (G.40) manoeuvres to a position outboard of HMS Nizam (G.28) which is lying alongside the cameraship - crewmen line guard rail in foreground. VII. Medium shot off starboard beam of Queen Elizabeth Class battleship underway at sea (frame left cuts off stern). VIII. Medium long shot as elements of Second Battle Squadron (King George V, Centurion, Erin and Agincourt) run abreast for a shoot. IX. SMS Koenigsberg moored at Rosyth. ML.72 semaphores. Medium shot off port beam as HMS Blonde passes. X. Medium long shot of coastal airship. Medium shot of Royal Sovereign Class battleship towing a kite balloon - C Class light cruiser in the background. XI. V/W Class destroyer approaches, making heavy weather, then turns away to starboard to give a long-shot view of three battleships in line astern. XII. Forth anchorage: medium shot as HMS Colossus passes HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Canada at their moorings. Medium long shot off port quarter of HMS Hercules as she passes in front of Canada. Camera pans left to show Royal Sovereign Class battleships of First Battle Squadron at anchor. XIII. Medium shot of Queen Elizabeth Class battleship underway at sea. S Class destroyer passes at speed. The cameraship is one of a squadron of battleships proceeding in line ahead - destroyer HMS Ulysses (G.77) steams right to left across bows of cameraship - in the foreground of the shot a crewman sits on a sighting hood of B turret. Camera pans left to show crewman and a companion, and three Royal Sovereign Class battleships in line on the horizon. High-angle medium shot to the guns of B turret trained over the starboard bow - one gun has just fired. Long shot of Iron Duke Class battleship as it fires B turret. XIV. Medium shot off port quarter of Royal Sovereign Class battleship underway in a slight sea - V/W Class destroyer in the background. Various shots of Royal Sovereign Class battleships returning from sea, and First Battle Squadron in line ahead with (?) HMS Marlborough in the van. XV. Medium long shot off port bow of HMS Lion in anchorage - Forth railway bridge in the background.

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