'Mystery Tower’ Ship Launched. Thousands of People Assembled to See the Concrete and Iron Monster Towed Out of Shoreham Harbour. The Building Cost was £1,250,000 and the Vessel will be used for Coastal Defence.

Series

Series Name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue

Issue No.

990

Date Released

16 Sep 1920

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Ladies Long Distance Swimming Championship from Kew to Putney
2. 2Southend Sea Angling Festival Opens. The 1,318 Competitors Caught?
3. 3'All Clothes’ Swimming Race in the Serpentine for the Puckett Cup
4. 4Cross Channel Swim. Mrs Arthur Hamilton was Only 9 Miles from France After 12 Hours in the Water. She is Continuing Her Training with a View to Another Attempt.
5. 5'Mystery Tower’ Ship Launched. Thousands of People Assembled to See the Concrete and Iron Monster Towed Out of Shoreham Harbour. The Building Cost was £1,250,000 and the Vessel will be used for Coastal Defence.

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 5

Summary

SHOTLIST: Concrete fortification on floating platform; towing away fortification; section of same; crowd; fortification.

Keywords

Ships and boats; Engineering; Launchings

Library number GR

4153

Length of story (in feet)

121

Story extras:

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