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RNAW: A Sailors View - Britannia Goes To War
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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| Drawing on much rare and never before seen footage from diverse film archives, Royal Navy historian Roland R Smith creates a powerful film portrait of the Royal Navy in the early years of the war, reviewing the fIeet and recounting some of its earliest action. Pre-war material is aIso featured, with highIights including Queen EIizabeth at the 1924 Spithead Review, the Home FIeet engaged in wargames, the 1937 Coronation Review at Spithead (with aerial views) and the Hood sailing with the Ark Royal and Repulse. AlI three wouId shortly be lost. There are comprehensive fiIm reviews of the battIeship fleet, aircraft carriers, cruisers and destroyers as weIl as sloops, corvettes, frigates, minesweepers, armed trawlers, gunboats, fleet tugs, MTBs and submarines. Early engagements featured include the BattIe of the River PIate in which the cruisers Ajax, Achilles and Exeter took on the battleship Graf Spee, the rescuing of merchant seamen by the Cossack and the Barham, ResoIution and Ark Royal taking part in 'Operation Menace' off the African Coast. The Barham is later seen capsizing and expIoding after being torpedoed in the Mediterranean. As weIl as fleet reviews and dramatic accounts of earIy battles, Britannia Goes to War also looks at how the Royal Navy changed in response to war, with coverage of the training of new recruits, new tactics to protect convoys in the ChanneI and a new priority on mine sweeping in home waters. |
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