German Floating Dock Launched 1920

Star Item

Description

Germany.

Intertitle: "42,000 TON FLOATING DOCK launched - but we shall have it when completed".

Panning shot of an enormous metal construction. L/S of the 'u' shaped dock sliding sideways down a ramp and into the sea with a big splash. Panning shot of the dock floating on the sea....

more

Data

Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
22050
Sort Number:
G 0731
Time in/Out:
01:52:13:00 / 01:52:47:00
Canister:
G 731
Film ID:
224.43
Issue Date:
27/12/1920

Comments (0)

We always welcome comments and more information about our films.

All posts are reactively checked. Libellous and abusive comments are forbidden.

Add your comment

To post a comment, please Register or to add a comment
Adrenaline seekers from the past have left an indelible mark on the Pathe archive. Some were so dangerous they even lost their lives. Here are 10 top daredevils.
daredevil
Terrorism is nothing new. The Pathe archive has a vast collection of material related to terrorist attacks dating back to 1919 right through to the 2005 London bombings.
911
British Pathe captured many extraordinary events on film over its 80 year history but sometimes the cameras were switched on when tragedy struck.
Franz Reichelt

Related Videos

Hide
News In A Nutshell (Students Rag In Glasgow, Jockeys Curling Match At St. Moritz, Walter Neusel And Jack Petersen In Training, New Air Mail Service To South Africa, American Race Horse Arrives To London Docks & Ice Breakers At Stettin)

News In A Nutshell (Students Rag In Glasgow, Jockeys Curling Match At St. Moritz, Walter Neusel And Jack Petersen In Training, New Air Mail Service To South Africa, American Race Horse Arrives To London Docks & Ice Breakers At Stettin)

Roundup of the short world news

Scrapped! (& Cuts)

Scrapped! (& Cuts)

Captured German floating dock is sent to breakers yard "because we've now built our own"!

Launched In Two Sections

Launched In Two Sections

A huge floating dock has been built in Hamburg

German Battleship Raised

German Battleship Raised

Attempts to salvage battleships off the coast of Scotland.

German Floating Dock

German Floating Dock

An enormous German floating dock arrive in Sheerness having surrendered under Peace Treaty.

Brass Tour Wrecked - Sub Base

Brass Tour Wrecked - Sub Base

Mixed material including British officers in German Harbour & submarine base in Scotland.

A Herculean Task (Scapa Flow Reel)

A Herculean Task (Scapa Flow Reel)

Unidentified Pathe Gazette item about German warships being salvaged from Scapa Flow.

 

 

The death penalty has been carried out in almost all societies and although these images from WWI and WWII are unsettling, they still provide a raw account of events from a certain time.
Death Row
The images taken from inside Buchenwald Concentration Camp after its Liberation show us what it was like; it tells us what happened and forces us to remember.
Buchenwald
The great politician and orator Winston Churchill left behind a sea of humourous quips and discerning quotes. We remember some of his finest epigrams and witty ripostes.
Churchill
WW2 accounted for over 60m deaths and innumerable lives shattered. Pathé cameras took to land, sea and air to record the bloodshed. Here are the 10 bloodiest battles that were caught on film.
Battle
Life before health and safety laws; men worked at huge heights, balancing on girders and cranes all in order to help build the world's tallest skyscrapers.
Vertigo
Private UFOs, flying bicycles, motorised wheels - Pathe's archive is awash with fabulous films of canny and creative transport inventions.
Transport_Inventions
Over its history, the Pathe cameras filmed a number of people who had committed heinous crimes. So in no particular order, these images show ten faces of truly evil men and women.
Himmler