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Description: | Sir Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada, visits the British battleships in the Firth of Forth, February 1917.
Medium close-up as Sir Robert Borden comes onboard HMS Queen Elizabeth from a motor launch - Royal Sovereign Class battleship moored in background. Commodore Brand and Admiral Beatty are among a group of officers which receives him. Borden talks with Beatty and Madden on the quarterdeck. The party goes below through the quarterdeck hatch. Cut to medium close-up of Borden and party coming up the gangway of HMS Canada - Captain Nicholson (?) salutes them. Borden is introduced to the ship's officers and inspects a party of ratings. Cut to medium shot from focsle to A turret (canvas hatch tent in foreground): the guns are elevated and depressed. Medium shot of crewmen preparing paravane on focsle - in the background ship's whaler is hoisted inboard. Low-angle medium shot from deck to control top of foremast, and pan down to bridge and forward turrets - pan right to portside of focsle, where towing cable is secured to capstan and paravane is hoisted outboard.
35mm | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Brand Beatty Borden William Coldingham Masters 12/3(261.2).7 CANADA (HMS) Madden Queen Elizabeth Royal Navy David Richard Hubert Charles E battleship Robert Laird Nicholson | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Engholm, F W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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