Interior Sets
Does anyone know it they used any real ships, HMS Belfast for example, for any of the interior sequences on the Laconia?
shareDon't think so, they looked like they were mostly sets. The exception would be the ballroom which looked like a room in a hotel. I thought I could see green fire exit signs in the background!
shareCheers for the reply : ) Was just wondering, since I was sat watching with my Dad (Royal Navy for nearly 40 years, unbelievably annoying shipping history buff), and he swore he recognised one of the rooms as being from HMS Belfast...something to do with the way one of the walls looked. God help us...
May have to check it out again on iPlayer for those fire exit signs! I know it's sad, but I can't help but love finding chronological innacuracies in films/TV shows. Like seeing lines painted on the road in Downton Abbey XD
They built sets in south africa, perhaps used some locations there.
Have you seen the blog of the set designer on the bbc- homepage?
Not so much chronological innacuracies but the U 156 was a Type IXC not a Type VII as depicted. I'm guessing, but I suspect that they used the 'U571' from the film of the same name as it was used in the BBC production of Ghost Boat which was in Malta.
Also there were 3 more submarines involved in the rescue the U503, U504, both Type IXC's and the Italian Submarine Cappellini. Despite the American attack and emergency dive of the submarines they all stayed with the survivors until the Gloire and Annamite arrived. The Cappellini transfered her survivors onto the Dumont D'Urville.
http://www.uboat.net/ops/laconia.htm and http://www.combinedfleet.com/I-503.htm give more detailed info on the rescue and there are several books availible now
'Ghost Boat' was ITV, not BBC.
shareCall me a 'noob'!! But it looked like a Type-IX(do compare and return;-)
AND NO! It did not look like a VII! (they
actually did some effort, on the hardware side:-)