Tanker Launch

Series

Series Name: Oil Review

Issue

Issue No.

Date Released

1951

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 2

Summary

NoS Summary - the launching of Sunderland motor tanker, ‘British Reliance’
BP synopsis: Sunderland on the Wear, where the largest (16,000) ton tanker (The British Reliance) is preparing for launch. General shots of ship building. Final touches are being made for both the slipway and the ship itself. The next day it is the launch. The slips are waxed and then tallowed. Mr Thompson the ship foreman supervises. Then the drag chains are attached to stop the ship running aground on the opposite shore and the wedges are removed. The signal bell is fixed, and the bottle is in place. We then hear ‘God bless this ship’ and a pan as the ship runs down the slips, with the workers casually walking away. Cut to a higher shot of the ship entering the water, and cut again to see the drag chains beginning to move.

Keywords

Ships and boats; Industry and manufacture; Launchings

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases
National Film Archive Catalogue
Film User Vol.4 No.44 June 1950, p358.
British Petroleum brochures BP Archive barcode 82197
BP Video Library Tape details. Used for synopsis

Credits:

Sponsor: Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
Production Co.: Greenpark Productions Ltd.
Producer: Humphrey Swingler

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