Figure 1.--This scene from 'Our fighting navy' shows Expats coming into the Briish Embassy in an unidentified South American counbtry. |
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A South American country has a revolution. Expats seek safety in the British Embassy. The Revolutionary army uses the former regines navel vessels to bombard the British Embassey. The Royal Navy steams to the rescue. They sink the navel ship bombarding the British embassy. Images of navel vessels sailing the seven seas looking very impressive and reassuring that Britain has a mighty fleet. Actually as aesult of inter-War budget cuts, the Royal Navy had been substantially reduced. The enemy battleship is really the Royal Oak. In the film it is blown to bits by tordedoes. In the early stages of World War II a German U-Boat sailed into Scapa Flow and sunk the Royal Oak with torpedoes. This was a propaganda coup for the Germans at the onset of the War, although Arl Royal was at the time an aging ship. The leading actors are American. These were used in the hope that the film would have a better chance of being shown in the United States. It was shown with the title 'Torpedoed'. We are not sure about the inspiration for the film. The title suggests that someonewanted to show case the importance of the Royal Navy. The plot suggests that they wanted to do this without making a provocative anti-German statement. We are not sure who wasresponsible for this film. It is possible that Navy advocates played a role in it, but we are not sure.
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