Full title reads: "1,500 unemployed ex-servicemen and their families leave to seek better future in Australia in Maiden trip of P & O Liner 'Ballarat'."

Tilbury, Essex.

M/S of crowd of men, all carrying suitcases, walking across a bridge. Various high angled shots of men and their families waiting on quayside, around bottom of gangplank. Some of the people start to board the ocean liner. High angled shot of several young families showing their boarding passes to a porter. M/S of people waving from deck as ship departs.