Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 6306 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| PRINCE PHILLIP SEES THE WARRIOR | 1980 | 1980-01-01 |
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Details
Original Format: Standard 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 1 min 59 secs Credits: Walter Gill Genre: Amateur Subject: Transport Ships |
| Summary This amateur film by Walter Gill records the occasion when Prince Phillip visited Hartlepool to inspect the restoration work being carried out onthe historic ship HMS Warrior, a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy, 1859–1861. |
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Description
This amateur film by Walter Gill records the occasion when Prince Phillip visited Hartlepool to inspect the restoration work being carried out onthe historic ship HMS Warrior, a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy, 1859–1861.
Title: 1980
Title: Prince Philip Sees The Warrior
The film begins wiith a flag flying on a pole on the wall of a building, and below some sea cadets wait in uniform. More of them stand in line along the road. In the distance there's the...
This amateur film by Walter Gill records the occasion when Prince Phillip visited Hartlepool to inspect the restoration work being carried out onthe historic ship HMS Warrior, a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy, 1859–1861.
Title: 1980
Title: Prince Philip Sees The Warrior
The film begins wiith a flag flying on a pole on the wall of a building, and below some sea cadets wait in uniform. More of them stand in line along the road. In the distance there's the imposing hulk of HMS Warrior.
A brief view follows of the Custom's House clock tower. Officials and mebers of the public watch the cadets standing in line. Nearby a brass band plays.
Prince Philip emerges from the Custom's House with the mayor at his side. The officer and naval cadets salute Prince Philip. The prince stops and chats with the officer and one of the cadets.
Prince Philip then walks down the road surrounded by officials and pursued by photographers. They head towards the old coal dock at Hartlepool where the ship is undergoing restoration.
The group of officials, guests and followers pass by the prow of the ship. A crowd of well wishers greets the royal visitor as he approaches the ship. They enter the area where visitors and workers gain access to the ship. He walks up the gangway to the deck of the ship. A close up of the hull of the ship follows, with views of those not allowed on board waiting in the car park nearby
A brief view of the prow of the ship ends the film.
Title: End
Context
This is an amateur film by Walter Gill which shows the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Phillip visiting the HMS Warrior in Hartlepool. Other films within our collection by Walter Gill are similar as they are amateur films surrounding the Yorkshire area, many of them involve trips to Yorkshire towns and show off the location.
HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam powered, armoured frigate and was built around 1859-1861for the Royal Navy. Warrior and her sister ship, HMS Black Prince, were built in 1859 in...
This is an amateur film by Walter Gill which shows the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Phillip visiting the HMS Warrior in Hartlepool. Other films within our collection by Walter Gill are similar as they are amateur films surrounding the Yorkshire area, many of them involve trips to Yorkshire towns and show off the location.
HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam powered, armoured frigate and was built around 1859-1861for the Royal Navy. Warrior and her sister ship, HMS Black Prince, were built in 1859 in response to France’s launching of the first ocean-going ironclad warship, the Gloire. This started an invasion scare in the UK as the Royal Navy lacked any ships that could counter the Gloire and her two sister ships. HMS Warrior spent her active career apart of the Channel Squadron but after the 1873 commission of the HMS Devastation, a mast-less and more capable ship, the HMS Warrior was placed in reserve in 1875 and decommissioned in 1883. Warrior then served as a store ship and in 1904 was assigned to the Royal Navy’s torpedo training school. In 1927 she was turned into an oil jetty where she remained in this role until 1979. In 1968 Prince Phillip chaired a meeting that discussed preserving and restoring the HMS Warrior and other historic vessels. The following year, 1969 the Maritime Trust was established with a permit to restore, preserve and display to the public historic British Ships. HMS Warrior was then donated by the Royal Navy to the Maritime Trust for restoration which took around 8 years and £9 million to complete, she was restored to her 1862 condition. HMS Warrior has been based in Portsmouth since 1987 and is a museum ship and listed as part of the National Historic Fleet. April 2017, the HMS Warrior Preservation Trust was taken over by the National Museum of the Royal Navy and became part of the Museums fleet. The ship is used as a museum but also as a venue for weddings and other functions to generate funds for her maintenance. |
