Red Sails AKA Sailing Barge 1947

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Description

Titles read: "RED SAILS".

Location of events unknown.

Mast of sailing barge. Deck of barge. Tug towing barge. Ships compass. Men on deck. Men on deck with lifebelt on the rigging in the background. Sails of barges. Men coiling rope. Men hauling on rope swinging sail and rigging. Sail...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
sound
Media URN:
43589
Sort Number:
NP 113
Time in/Out:
01:41:44:00 / 01:44:47:00
Canister:
NP 113
Film ID:
1317.26
Issue Date:
11/11/1947

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Cinemagazines
Categories
Sport & Leisure Trade & Industry
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East Coast

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  • A member of the public has written in to give us some information on this clip.

    The location is Gt Yarmouth and the barge is the Will Everard built at Gt Yarmouth and belonging to F.T.Everard & Sons Ltd of Greenhithe, Kent (which still survives in commission as a hospitality charter vessel today).

    British Pathé 28th Mar 2012

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