Great Gales Blow Out The Old Year 1929-1930

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Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear.

Full titles read: "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."

Several shots of the battered tanker in the dock....

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Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
18739
Sort Number:
G 1673
Time in/Out:
01:14:37:00 / 01:16:37:00
Canister:
G 1673
Film ID:
812.11
Issue Date:
28/01/1930

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