This Weeks New Warship "Beware Other Items… 1939

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Description

Heburn-on-Tyne, Tyne and Wear.

Full titles read: "THIS WEEKS NEW WARSHIP"

L/S's of the Countess of Dartmouth holding a large bouquet of flowers. She smashes a champagne bottle on the bow of the HMS Naiad and it starts to slide down the ramp into the River Tyne.

Data

Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
19310
Sort Number:
39/011
Time in/Out:
01:35:51:00 / 01:36:19:00
Canister:
39/11
Film ID:
999.41
Issue Date:
06/02/1939

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