HMS Rodney Aka HMS Rodney (1931)

A look at life on board the battleship HMS Rodney. Full titles read: Sits here a boy (old or young) with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said I d love to go on a Battleship By kind permission of the Admiralty, Pathetone Weekly takes you over Rodney The largest Battleship in the British Location of events unknown could be Portsmouth in Hampshire Various shots of HMS Rodney as a commentator tells us the cost, dimensions and speed of the battleship, along with other technical details. M, S of the tower of the ship, from where the guns and torpedoes are controlled and fired. Several shots of the gun turrets; sailors are seen loading one of the guns. Various shots of sailors sending messages by semaphore with flags and searchlights. L, S of sailors climbing into lifeboats that are lowered to the ground in an exercise; they row the boats over the water at great speed. On the deck of the ship a crowd of men watch the tug of war team practise, pulling on a rope attac