Digging Out A Ship (1927)

Item title reads: “Digging out a ship. S. S. “Mistley“ - driven ashore on Christmas Eve - is being released from her bed of shingle.“ Deal, Kent M/S back of the huge ship, with the name ’Mistley’ Harwich - clearly seen. A team of men, dressed in jackets and cloth caps work at digging the shingle away. They team up to push wooden timbers under the ship and to pull on ropes to shift the vessel. Note: Gargantuan task for the men - working without machines. 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), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the