Success At Scapa Flow Scapa Flow Reel (1924)

Identical duplicate of Pathe Gazette story - other version and rest of G 1099 is on PM0346. Scapa Flow, Orkney, Scotland. Title: “SUCCESS! First of Germany’s scuttles fleet raised by Messers. Cox & Danks, after months of incessant toil“. M/S of the deck of a salvage vessel, men turn the enormous handles on a row of winches. High angled shot of two salvage vessels moored parallel to each other, on both sides cranes and winches work to lift the sunken battleships / submarines from the seabed. Intertitle: “After 5 years on the Ocean bed“. Various M/Ss on the surfaced wreck, mangled and covered in seaweed, men work to clean the wreck up. Panning shot of a wreck moored next to the salvage vessel - looks like a German U-boat. Note: this item was originally part of “Scapa Flow Reel“ - a collection of stories about the salvaging of World War One vessels. FILM ID:3215.1 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINA