Ship Building (1960)

Unissued / Unused material - Harland and Wolff shipyard, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Ulster. Various shots of all kinds of ship building work taking place. Plates are welded, metal is turned, rivets are heated - all manner of heavy metal work is undertaken. We then see that the ship being built is the ocean liner ’Canberra’. VS of the Canberra being launched. 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 end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.
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