# "OUR NAVY IN WARTIME" ROYAL NAVY SILENT NEWSREEL 73622

"Our Navy in Wartime" is a multi-segment short mostly filmed aboard the battlecruiser HMS Hood apparently during the first few months of the Second World War. It features several famous Royal Navy ships including HMS Ark Royal, HMS Nelson and HMS Repulse sailing in her company during various patrols and exercises from September to December 1939 along with footage of her crew engaged in various activities such as signaling by lamp and flag, exercising her anti-aircraft guns and playing hockey on her quarter deck. Target practice with naval guns, pom-pons and torpedoes is shown including retrieval of practice torpedoes, and delivery of mail at sea. A paravane is also shown being deployed. There is dramatic footage taken aboard Hood in both moderate and heavy seas with waves crashing over her notoriously wet quarter deck, drenching her aft 15-inch turrets making it abundantly clear why she was called “the largest submarine in the fleet”! Her virtually life-long companion, the battlecruiser Repulse, features prominently, steaming astern or on either quarter. There is footage of the carriers Ark Royal and Furious conducting air operations, and of the battleships Nelson and Rodney steaming off her starboard bow. In one instant, at about 10:55 in the film, there is a glimpse of the battleship Valiant astern in heavy seas. A few destroyers are featured, two of which can be identified by their pennant numbers, HMS Tartar (F 43) and HMS Punjabi (F 21). HMS Hood was the Royal Navy’s…

- Kind: Newsreel
- Genres: News, Silent, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/73622RoyalNavyInWartimeMos)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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