HANDS ACROSS THE SEA [Main Title]

Arrival of US Battleship Division 9 at Scapa Flow, December 1917, and first meeting of the Allied Naval Council.

The British fleet awaits its visitors - among the attendant ships are Colossus and Bellerophon Class battleships, HMS Neptune, and Warrior and Minotaur Class armoured cruisers. HMS Canada: "A link in the chain of Empire". Destroyers return from a patrol - medium shot of M Class destroyers, HMS Offa and HMS Pellew(?). Close-up of battle honours of HMS Revenge. Life onboard ship - crew sewing and cobbling, gun loading competition. Scenes on a P Class patrol boat as torpedo is loaded into tube. Drifters at moorings, and an individual vessel at sea. Battleship flashes signal across anchorage (a rowing boat suddenly appears, jump cut into the foreground). "Uncle Sam's Aid" - HMS Queen Elizabeth passes left to right across the stern of USS New York in a historic meeting of flagships. Medium shot of USS Wyoming. Bow-on views of Queen Elizabeth and New York, contrasting their tripod and cage masts. Bluejackets learn British signalling methods - a rating semaphores. Low-angle medium shot of 3-inch AA on high pedestal mount (New York Class battleship). Life onboard one of the American ships - clothes scrubbed, foretop mast and whaler repaired, ship's "K.9", high-angle medium shot from the bridge, taking on coal, etc. Medium shot, USS Wyoming. "Ave Atque Vale": visiting British officers leave American ship. The First Allied Naval Conference - individual close-ups and various shots of delegates - Sims, Wemyss, De Lostende, Twining, Funakoshi, etc.

35mm