USA / DEFENCE: Cruiser ’USS Pensacola’ launched at Brooklyn: Maids of Honour attend (1929)

EMPIRE NEWS NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Launch of heavy cruiser USS Pensacola. Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: Maids of Honour at a launch. Bevy of girls support usual sponsor at launch of the US cruiser Pensacola at Brooklyn. USA: New York: Brooklyn: EXT Various of women (Maids of Honour - wearing white and holding bouquets of flowers) at launch USS Pensacola (US heavy cruiser) launched and people on dock waving Wide shot of ships at sea, with small rowing boat in foreground Background: Launch of heavy cruiser USS Pensacola. FILM ID: VLVA1LR0CZETP8RTNTQZ16N1OLIWJ To license this film, visit Archive: Reuters Archive managed by: British Pathé