Home movie of HMS Capetown on the China Station, featuring a refit at Hong Kong and a mountain climbing expedition on Tai-Mo-Shan in the New Territories, July 1937.

The film begins with a mixed party climbing and picnicking on Tai-Mo-Shan, with views down onto Hong Kong harbour. There are good shots of HMS Capetown from another craft alongside her. There are shots of tenders going ashore at Hong Kong. Capetown arrived there on July 15th 1937 but her scheduled refit was postponed and her hull was cleaned and repainted only. There are shots of this and of supplies being taken aboard. There is a sequence showing marines going ashore and several unidentified warships in the harbour. There are several shots of the officers relaxing on board.

Notes

Technical: 8mm blown up to 16mm, at 16 fps.

Documentation/associated material: see Garnett folder for detailed notes and also 'The Royal Navy and the Sino-Japanese Incident 1937-41' by Martin Brice, especially page 34.

Remarks: for general assessment of this excellent collection see report by Taylor Downing. Captain Garnett died in July 1996.