vid of HMS Nelson and fleet, 1931

[besilarius]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68_Guea6ycY

Nice vidoe of 31 maneuvers.  One interesting thing is about 1.5 minutes in, a spotting plane lays a smoke screen.  Had never seen this before.
Also around 6 there are some shots of RN destroyers.  My gosh were the Heros and Scimitars small.  The idea of riding out a storm near the Arctic Circle in one of those is terrifying.  During the Battle of the Atlantic, they laughed up their sleeves at our destroyers.  We had enclosed bridges and theirs were totally open.  Amazing that all of their deck officers weren't lost overboard during gales.

[Staggerwing]

Thanks for finding that!

If the film was shot from Nelson then it must be the Rodney that is shown at the 7.20 mark. Also, one of the Iron Duke class appears at the 4:20 mark. Odds are 3 out of 4 that she was scrapped right after the film was shot. there were 4 built and only Iron Duke herself survived into WW2 as a disarmed training vessel.

[besilarius]

There's a good chance the Iron Duke BB may have been Centurion.  She was converted to a target ship and used for gunnery practice through (I think) 1943.  They extra armored the bridge and ships with 6" guns or lighter could use reduced charges to fire into the Centurion.  I think they played around with radio controlling her, but not sure if this worked out.

[bob48]

I remember having an Airfix model of the Nelson years ago, they always struck me as being great looking ships.

[Staggerwing]

I remember having an Airfix model of the Nelson years ago, they always struck me as being great looking ships.

Was it Airfix that had the line of models back in the 70's that had three different colored plastics?

[GDS_Starfury]

yup.  I hated the white and yellows as they were a bitch to paint.

[Al]

You guys find the best videos.  The Nelson & Rodney were impressive ships.

[GDS_Starfury]

you should see what we cant post here.  ;)