| Miracle At Sea: 2,500 Escape Death In Ship Collision | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1620 |
| Catalog #: | 354230 | |
| Clip Number: | 354230-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 029-061-01 | |
| Timecode: | 00:33:28 - 00:36:17 | |
| Location: | United States | |
| Year Shot: | 1956 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | DISASTERS: Boating accident, Shipwreck DISASTERS: Damage / Aftermath DISASTERS: Rescues DISASTERS: Survivors DISASTERS: Victims LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA TRANSPORTATION/BOATS & SHIPS: Passenger Liners | |
| Description: | 2,500 Escape death, when the Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria is sunk off Nantucket in a collision with the Swedish American liner Stockholm. All aboard the Italian vessel were rescued in a large-scale co-operative operation involving other liners and the coast guard. Lost 52 lives - All of whom died as a result of the collision, but the toll is miraculously light, in what could have been one of the sea's worst disasters. Establishing shot - The crippled passenger ship is leaning on one side. Aerial shot - The Andrea Doria is laying on her side. Aerial shot - The water is almost to the top of the boat. Aerial shot - The Stockholm with a smashed in bow carrying 500 of the Andrea Doria survivors. Aerial shot - The other side of the Stockholm's bow. LL - Cars parked on a grassy area and a helicopter that has landed to carry away seriously injured passengers. MS - Sailors putting an injured passenger inside the helicopter. MS - A little girl on a stretcher, one policemen is comforting her and the other policeman is at the other end of the stretcher. Aerial shot of the sinking Andrea Doria, water is covering half of her stack. Aerial shot - The water is strum with personal belongings of her 1134 hundred of her passengers. Aerial shot - Eleven hours after the collision the Andrea Doria is nearing her end as she keeps on sinking more and more. Aerial shot - The Andrea Doria sinks with many Italian treasures on it. CUS - The Lle de France ocean liner pulling into New York harbor with 758 survivors. MLS - Passengers and survivors of the Andrea Doria standing at the railings of the Lle de France. Survivors sitting on deck with blankets on them. One man has a bandaged head. CUS - A family sitting with their children and big smiles. CUS - The backs of survivors waving and the sky line of New York City in the back ground. CUS - Capitan Raule ? of the French ocean liner and his radio operator. MS - People disembarking on stretchers from the ship. | |
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