The Launch of the Punta Medanos at Wallsend
Feb 20, 1950 | IMDB 0
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Tyneside shipyard Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson turns out a beast of a tanker for the Argentine Navy.
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Tyneside shipyard Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson turns out a beast of a tanker for the Argentine Navy.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Visit to a Shipbuilding Yard
Shipyard
Emmalou's First Year
The Key to Britain
Speaking of Freight
The Freight Train
The Coast of Commerce
Den sista båten
Balmoral
Rebuilding Titanic
Titanic: Building the World's Largest Ship
The Occupation of Cockatoo Island 1989
Rolling the Freight
Freightliner and Merry Go Round
Sea Trial
The Fifteen Streets
Buckskin Frontier
Jennifer: A Woman’s Story
The Road to France
My Pop, My Pop
SIMILAR MOVIES
Visit to a Shipbuilding Yard
IMDB 0 | Mar , 1951
A party of children take an eye-opening tour of John Brown's Shipyard in Clydebank.Shipyard
IMDB 9 | Jun , 2009
Shipyard is a landmark documentary covering the creation and life of Bellingham, Washington's wooden boat shipyard, which was built in response to the Axis threat of WWII, it's continued growth through the '50's and '60's, as well as it's innovative role in the development and production of fiberglass boats, including patrol riverboats for the Vietnam war.Emmalou's First Year
IMDB 0 | Feb , 1965
A lovingly crafted home movie charting the maiden voyage of the Brown family's new yacht.The Key to Britain
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1972
“Promotes trade with Britain among other countries in the European Community after the UK's entry on 1st January 1973. Kelloggs is given as an example of how major British companies worked at this period.” - Robin Carmody.Speaking of Freight
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1961
When a business tycoon allows himself to be 'snared' into seeing some films in a railway traffic manager's office, there must be a reason for it. In this case, it's a particularly giant-sized transport problem. But before he's convinced that the railways can help him solve it, there is an atmosphere of battle in the room, and some interesting and unexpected facts are hurled about in the course of the argument. Made to promote the use of railways to transport raw materials and finished products.The Freight Train
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1954
EB Films presents a documentary on the life of the freight train in America.The Coast of Commerce
IMDB 0 | May , 1962
Take a revealing tour along a coast of contrasts, from the folksy freshness of Whitby to the coaly Tyne, queen of all rivers.Den sista båten
IMDB 0 | Dec , 1983
The wharf in Landskrona launches its final boat as the workers get ready for unemployment.Balmoral
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2025
As historic ships vanish from British waters, a group of passionate volunteers fights to save the Balmoral—a 1949 passenger vessel moored in Bristol’s iconic harbour—battling time, bureaucracy, and financial struggles to preserve a piece of maritime history before it’s lost forever.Rebuilding Titanic
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2011
Experts rebuild iconic sections of the Titanic, using shipbuilding industry methods of a hundred years ago.Titanic: Building the World's Largest Ship
IMDB 8.8 | Apr , 2022
The virtually untold story of the supersize steamship’s construction: how 15,000 men toiled day and night in life-threatening conditions to create a state-of-the-art floating city.The Occupation of Cockatoo Island 1989
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2025
Documents the Cockatoo Island Dockyard occupation and industrial actions of 1989.Rolling the Freight
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1947
Film on the movement of material from the Chicago and Northwestern System.Freightliner and Merry Go Round
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1965
A British Transport Film, in German!Sea Trial
IMDB 0 | Feb , 1976
Lu Dahai and his shipbuilding team want the 10,000-ton ocean freighter "The East" to be given a sea trial. But the ship is made with domestic parts, and Chen Zongjie, a leader of the Party Committee of the Bureau of Foreign Transport, believes that the quality is not sufficient, and orders that the parts be replaced with imported ones before the sea trial takes place. In the end, the sea trial not only sets a successful new record, but also rescues a Taiwanese fishing boat in distress.The Fifteen Streets
IMDB 6.2 | Jan , 1989
In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker's district. He falls in love with Mary, the teacher of his highly intelligent younger sister Kathy and daughter of a rich family. Their love is doomed by the social difference, but the vigorous Mary refuses to allow outer circumstances destroying their love.Buckskin Frontier
IMDB 6 | May , 1943
A railroad man and the owner of a freight line battle for control of a crucial mountain pass.Jennifer: A Woman’s Story
IMDB 0 | Mar , 1979
The widow of a wealthy shipbuilder tries to hold onto his business and becomes involved with boardroom intrigue in her bitter struggle to maintain control of the company. Based on British TV series "The Foundation." Pilot to a prospective series.The Road to France
IMDB 0 | Oct , 1918
Tom Whitney, well connected but a social derelict because of his weakness for drink, is released from the draft because of an old football Injury, but a policeman persuades him that he can still do his bit in the shipyards. He takes a job in the yard owned by the man to whose daughter he was engaged in happier times. Three German propagandists seek to foment a strike to delay the work, and largely through Tom's efforts the plan goes amiss and the strike is called off. Rehabilitated by work, the launching of The Liberty is a forecast of his own rebirth.My Pop, My Pop
IMDB 7.8 | Oct , 1940
Popeye's 99-year-old father won't admit he's too old to help Popeye build a ship. Popeye tells him to build one side while he builds the other; Pappy's side is a mess. He falls asleep helping hoist the mast. While Pappy sleeps, Popeye rebuilds his side and finishes the above-decks, with a little help from spinach, of course.