(Reel 1) Foxhounds taken to Gibraltar for local hunt. Working up at Malta. Imperial Airways plane at Alexandria. Shooting at float. Band of Royal Marines. After training in Mediterranean, en route to Trinidad. Railway from La Guaira to Caracas, Venezuela. Fort St George, Grenada.

(Reel 2) Practice firing of torpedoes and lowering of pinnace to recover them. HMS Ajax escorts Viceroy of India bearing Egyptian King Farouk back to Alexandria from Marseille on 2 May 1936, with French destroyers Vauquelin and Kersaint as escorts initially. Shore scenes in Alexandria. Large Ward-Tamplin on small donkey. Aerial view of Alexandria and HMS Ajax with tropical awning. Practice shoots near Gibraltar, with C-in-C's flag flying.

(Reel 3) To Cairo from Alexandria. Ward-Tamplin (large figure) on camel. Tented barracks of British Army at Haifa. Jetty at Haifa for RN cruisers.

(Reel 4) Egyptian guests on board HMS Ajax watch practice shoot at sea by RN capital ships off Alexandria. Plane catapulted off. Zoo animals. Naval officers (in plain clothes with black armbands in mourning for King George V) in Alexandria at wedding of fellow officer Lieutenant-Commander E R Collins at St Mark's Church on 25 January 1936.

(Reel 5) "Acre" After return to Mediterranean for Abyssinian Crisis. From Haifa, Palestine to old prison at Acre, Syria. View from Mount Carmel towards Haifa. Gymkhana. HMS Warspite at Port Said. HMS Ajax dressed overall. Italian troops en route to Abyssinia. Officers' donkey match at Port Said.

(Reel 6) HMS Beagle (H.30). Making black smoke and white smokescreen. HMAS Sydney at sea during Evolutions exercise, being passed towline. Ashore in Malta, during refit.

Amateur film shot by Engineer Commander John Frederick Ward-Tamplin while serving on HMS Ajax records naval activity in the Mediterranean and some shore scenes during the Abyssinian Crisis and Arab unrest in Palestine.