| BREAKING UP SALVAGED CRUISER AT ROSYTH Salvaged German battleship broken up for scrap metal - valuable for rearmament race. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6349 |
| Catalog #: | 255025 | |
| Clip Number: | 255025-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 37/82 | |
| Timecode: | 01:07:20 - 01:07:56 | |
| Location: | Rosyth, Fife, Scotland. | |
| Year Shot: | 1937 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | INDUSTRY: Metal, Misc LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, Scotland TRANSPORTATION/BOATS & SHIPS: Military, Battleship | |
| Description: | Breaking up salvaged german cruiser at Rosyth. Rosyth, Fife, Scotland. Various shots of dockers breaking up rusty old German battleship from World War One. The ship lies upside down in a dry dock. She is being broken up to salvage scrap metal - extremely valuable now world is re-arming. Narrator points out irony of this: "Steel that might have been used to attack Britain now comes to Britain's defence". | |
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