Destroyers Dive To Davy Jones' Locker 1939

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Full titles read: "IN DAVY JONE'S LOCKER"

Various shots of old Australian warship the 'Stalwart' being prepared. The ship is filled with thousands of bad onions. Several shots of the ship sinking at sea. The commentator remarks, "Goodbye onions, goodbye Stalwart what a pickle you're in now!"

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Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
20155
Sort Number:
39/067
Time in/Out:
01:06:24:00 / 01:07:13:00
Canister:
39/67
Film ID:
1019.07
Issue Date:
21/08/1939

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