the STORY OF HMS VINDICTIVE AT OSTEND [Main]


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  • Year: 1918
  • Runtime: 24 mins
  • Description: HMS Vindictive in port prior to the operation. Pan over moored motor launches as they prepare for sea. High-angle medium shot of coastal motor boat showing smoke dischargers. Dunkirk: long shot of the French coast. British destroyers search out the enemy: Broke Class Leader followed by M Class, and destroyers in line astern laying smoke, signalling by searchlight. CMBs pass camera at speed. ML.558 approaches to semaphore. MLs make smoke. Long shot profile of a hospital ship - CMB in the foreground. Monitors: stern to bow track past Lord Clive Class monitor; second Lord Clive bows-on; medium shot to stern of Erebus Class monitor. The scene shifts to the cooperating land and air forces - various shots of Allied 12-, 9.2- and 7.5-inch coastal batteries and their crews, pilots being briefed and aircraft bombed up. Medium shot profile of flagship, HMS Warwick. French Hurricane Deck Type destroyer cooperates with British Admiralty M Class ships. Concluding sequence showing close-ups of HMS Vindictive, with the "honourable wounds" received in the Zeebrugge raid of 23 April, and the officers who participated in the operation. "What the efforts of the British Navy stand for": German flag is struck, and the White Ensign raised in its stead.
    Film showing HMS Vindictive and other naval vessels of the type used in the raid on Ostend, 10 May 1918.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / Sandford, F H / Lynes, H / Clark, F H / Hamilton-Benn, Ion / Bourke, Roland Richard Louis / Keyes, Roger John Brownlow / Royal Navy, Vindictive / Royal Navy, ML558 / Royal Navy, Nugent / Royal Navy, MOORSOM (HMS) / Royal Navy, Warwick / ships, British naval - cruiser: Vindictive / ships, British naval - cruiser: Warwick / ships, British naval - gunship: Lord Clive Class / ships, British naval - gunship: Erebus Class / ships, British naval - destroyer: Nugent (F.54) / ships, British naval - destroyer: Moorsom (H.84) / ships, British naval - destroyer: Broke Class Leader / ships, British naval - destroyer: V/W Class / ships, British naval - destroyer: Hawthorn M Class / ships, British naval - light forces: ML558 / ships, British naval - light forces: Coastal Motor Boat / ships, French naval - destroyer: Claymore Class / weapons, British - gun: 7.5-inch coastal gun / weapons, British - gun: 9.2-inch coastal gun / weapons, British - gun: 12-inch coastal gun / weapons, British naval - CBW: smokescreen / 12/3(261.2).841 / 12/3(261.2).842
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Engholm, F W
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound