Home movie of HMS Capetown on the China Station, featuring scenes in and around Hong Kong, early 1938.

The film begins with street scenes in Hong Kong and a sequence of children playing at a garden tea. There are scenes of HMS Capetown at sea, gun practice and exercises on board, and of officers clay-pigeon shooting. There are scenes of snow covered mountains around Hong Kong, ice on the shore, the coastline along the China Sea. The SS Yochow passes. There are shots of bayonet practice on board HMS Capetown.

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.

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