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Liverpool AKA Launch Of Lifeboat At Liverpool 1939
Description
Full titles read: "LIVERPOOL"
L/S's of local dignitaries launching the new Lifeboat set for New Brighton, Merseyside. The boat is called 'Edmund and Mary Robinson' after it's donor. M/S of Mary Robinson.
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Howard
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 19325
- Sort Number:
- 39/012
- Time in/Out:
- 01:46:55:00 / 01:47:21:00
- Canister:
- 39/12
- Film ID:
- 999.56
- Issue Date:
- 12/02/1939
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