Ocean Layer (1950-1959)

Unissued / unused material - dates and locations unclear or unknown. Ocean layer. Poor quality aerial shots of warships at sea - transferred from 16 mm print. December 2010: Venna Lovegrove volunteered information on this clip, confirming that it is C.S. Ocean Layer. The ship caught fire on 14th June 1959 and Anthony McPherson Ross, the ship Master, gave the order to abandon ship. It was taken in tow by the German tug Wotan, and scrapped in Falmouth, Cornwall. Ironically the ship was built in Germany in 1945, never commissioned there and taken by the British government as ’spoils of war’. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empir