DEFENCE: Retirement of five capital ships from the RN (1948)

GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Five older battleships and battlecruisers of the Royal Navy are scrapped rather than being overhauled and retrofitted to serve in the nuclear navy Full Description: Gaumont British Ident SLATE INFORMATION: Britain to Scrap Five Capital Ships VARIOUS: EXT NAVAL BRITISH Britain to scrap 5 capital ships. Shots of Launching of Nelson and pounding Italian coast. Rodney and Queen Elizabeth - Renown during Bismark chase all library materials. Shots of present Capital ships - Vanguard Duke of York, King George V - Anson and Howe. NELSON, . Shots of launching in 1925 - shots of Malta convoy days and pounding Italian coast used in “Britain to scrap 5 capital ships“ story “QUEEN ELIZABETH“, . Moored in Devonport harbour - Admiral Fisher comes aboard “RENOWN“ Shots of it used in “Britain to scrap five battleships story“ “R