| GREAT GALES BLOW OUT THE OLD YEAR Ships are badly damaged and beach due to the storms over the New Year | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5417 |
| Catalog #: | 248065 | |
| Clip Number: | 248065-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | G 1673 | |
| Timecode: | 01:22:38 - 01:24:42 | |
| Location: | Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear | |
| Year Shot: | 1930 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | DISASTERS: Boating accident, Shipwreck LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Tyne and Wear, Newcastle | |
| Description: | GREAT GALES BLOW OUT THE OLD YEAR - Steel work - "twisted like paper" - on Oil Tanker 'LARISTON', graphically illustrate how ships battered by giant seas, limped home to port. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear Several shots of the battered tanker in the dock. Many of the walkways are a mangled wreck. "Some alas did not get home" Numerous shots of large ships beached and stuck on the rocks. | |
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