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A fleet of tugs free the US battleship Missouri - which had run aground on a sandbar off Virginia.
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Big Mo (Missouri) Free. DESCRIPTION: For fifteen days the Mighty Mo was stuck in the mud on the Thimble Shoal off the Virginian Coast. At last, after great effort, the 45,000 ton...
COI synopsis: Varied jobs of a harbour tug at Southampton
US freighter sinks after collision. Tugs bring half a ship to safety after 1000 [sic] mile tow.
Report on the museum ship, HMS Belfast, which is being towed up the river Thames after a long period of being in a dry dock. Admiral Philip Hyman(?) comments. Female reporter not identified.
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Queen Mary Aground Off Cherbourg. DESCRIPTION: A sudden squall caused the liner to go aground on Les Salinas sandbank. Tugs pulled her off and back at Southampton cement is poured into...
NfO synopsis: The around-the-world motor boat sails through icy waters accompanied by several tugs and small cruisers before arriving in German(?) harbour to a congratulatory crowd.
A six-man team has been successfully airlifted onto the deck of the Sea Empress - the oil tanker that ran aground off west Wales. The salvage operation involving tugs and helicopters has been severely...
29,511 ton, ‘Statenden’, pride of the Holland-America Line, successfully towed off by 8 tugs after being stranded on sandbank for 48 hours.
And not without a spice of danger, 3 tugs, almost simultaneously, take the water in novel style.
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