’sessa’ Survivors In Iceland (1941)

Item title reads - Sessa survivors in Iceland. M/S of Henrik Bjerregaard limping towards the camera leaning on a stick. Various shots of the raft he clung to with his crew after their ship ’Sessa’ was torpedoed. C/U of a strip of wood recording where they were and notches counting the days, crosses under two days note the death of three of their colleagues. The rest of them were on the raft for nearly 3 weeks. C/U’s of the other two survivors in hospital beds. C/U of Henrik smoking a pipe. 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 a