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Description: | Surrender of U-boats and other ships of the German fleet at the end of the war.
I. Aerial medium shot of HMS Satyr (F.59) underway. Two surrendered U-boats pass beneath camera-airship, followed by Scott Class Leader, UC.III and U.160 Class (?) submarines. Medium shot, HMS Melampus (H.75) with Motor Launch alongside - R Class destroyer passes in background. Camera drifts right to pick up a line of U-boats passing right to left, diagonally down the screen - U.81 Class, U.93 Class, U.160 Class, and others. II. "German Ships on their way to surrender to Great Britain, Nov. 21st., 1918. Photographed from H.M.S. Castor". Long shot of line of German light cruisers - SS airship overhead. Medium long shot off port bow of HMS Talisman. Long shot of Bremse Class cruiser (?), and pan right to show German ships in line ahead. Medium long shot as Later Marksman Class destroyer leads in German destroyers. Pan over lines of surrendered vessels. Medium shot, HMS Seymour (D.09). Medium shot of Dromedary Class paddle tug. Various views of anchored German destroyers, including G.101, S.131, V.67, V.125, G.85, S.31 and B.109 Class vessels. British Thornycroft torpedo boat also appears in this sequence. Tracking close-up past S.53 Class destroyer - crew on deck, German naval ensign at peak of mainmast. Medium shot of V.67 Class destroyer. Panning long shot over anchorage at sunset. III. "Photographed from Airship N.S.7." Aerial views of surrendering German capital ships: Koenig Class battleships, British flagship HMS Queen Elizabeth, SMS Baden, Kaiser, Kaiserin (?), and Friedrich der Grosse, German battle cruisers SMS Von der Tann, Derfflinger, Hindenburg and Seydlitz, light cruisers SMS Bremse, Brummer, Frankfurt, Emden (II), Koeln (II) and Dresden (II).
35mm | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Seydlitz German Imperial Navy Hindenburg Talisman Von der Tann Kaiserin Emden (II) Seymour Satyr Friedrich der Grosse Armistice & German Navy Derfflinger Koeln (II) Brummer Melampus Queen Elizabeth Internment of & 21/11/1918 Dresden (II) Royal Navy Kaiser First World War Baden Bremse | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Royal Air Force | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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