A Short 184 some distance away from the camera comes in to land, then takes off. A PV5 seaplane taxies through the harbour, increasing speed to keep ahead of the camera boat. A Short 184 taxies around...
A Royal Engineers sergeant shows how to load two carrier pigeons into a small wicker basket for transport. At the Rosyth seaplane base Felixstowe F2A flying boats and Short 184 seaplanes ride at ancho...
The film is described in its opening captions as one of a series for naval cadets. It opens with a Fairey FIII seaplane with 190hp engine taxiing through the water. A King Edward Class battleship and ...
I. The steam catapult trials carried out at the Armstrong Whitworth plant, Elswick, and later at the Experimental Aircraft Depot, Isle of Grain. A steam catapult fitted to HMS Slinger is used first to...
The film is mixed, often out-of-focus and poor quality. It shows, principally, Archangel, Murmansk, British transport down the River Dvina and the seaplane base on Lake Onega. In addition to British t...
The film stresses that timber is an important national resource, and forest fires a great danger. There are flying boat bases at Parry Sound in Georgian Bay (part of Lake Huron) and at Whitney on Cach...
(Reel 1) Aerial view of Cranwell. Medium close-up of Commodore Luce; instruction of trainee ground crew and probationary flight officers; wireless school; gunnery practice with Maxim MG and Lewis on s...
(Reel 17) The episode starts with 'Justice'. Thereafter the first part is a re-edited version of IWM 303 GERMAN NAVAL INACTIVITIES and IWM 358 ZEEBRUGGE, showing German sailors in Ostend prior to the ...