Golly I am a lucky dog to be sent this DVD for review - it couldn’t be more my part of ship.

The main content is 53 minutes of movie clips of Royal Navy reviews that took place mostly at Spithead, but also at other locations, between 1914 and 1939, showing not only line upon line of mighty warships, but the same at sea and being inspected by royalty. These pictures of a vanished Navy of bone-white teak and dazzling bright work, frock coats and cocked hats, seven seas trouser creases, manning and cheering ship and firing gun salutes, are complemented by the same Navy at sea, vast battleships shipping it green, loading and firing the great guns, manoeuvring in serried company and showing their immaculate boatwork, picket boats with their gleaming Charlie Nobles, and overhead the developing Fleet Air Arm. I didn’t just watch all this, I wallowed in it.
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