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Object description
Sir Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada, visits the British battleships in the Firth of Forth, February 1917.
Full description
Medium close-up as Sir Robert Borden comes onboard HMS Queen Elizabeth from a motor launch - Royal Sovereign Class battleship moored in background. Commodore Brand and Admiral Beatty are among a group of officers which receives him. Borden talks with Beatty and Madden on the quarterdeck. The party goes below through the quarterdeck hatch. Cut to medium close-up of Borden and party coming up the gangway of HMS Canada - Captain Nicholson (?) salutes them. Borden is introduced to the ship's officers and inspects a party of ratings. Cut to medium shot from focsle to A turret (canvas hatch tent in foreground): the guns are elevated and depressed. Medium shot of crewmen preparing paravane on focsle - in the background ship's whaler is hoisted inboard. Low-angle medium shot from deck to control top of foremast, and pan down to bridge and forward turrets - pan right to portside of focsle, where towing cable is secured to capstan and paravane is hoisted outboard.

Production date
1917
Place made
GB
Dimensions
whole: Number Of Items/reels/tapes 1
Catalogue number
IWM 591

Sir Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada - the first Prime Minister to have given the shaft to our Canadian Veterans.

[Insert any Canadian Prime Minister since Borden] - gave the shaft to our Canadian Veterans.

Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada - the latest Prime Minister to have given the shaft to our Canadian Veterans.