Breaking Up Salvaged Cruiser At Rosyth 1937

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Title reads: "Rosyth".

Fife, Scotland.

Breaking up salvaged German cruiser at Rosyth. 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...

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
14002
Sort Number:
37/082
Time in/Out:
01:28:01:00 / 01:28:36:00
Canister:
37/82
Film ID:
939.39
Issue Date:
14/10/1937

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