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British Cunard Line Ships: The Aquitania; Queen Mary; and Queen Elizabeth

Bulk carrier ship moving in harbor.Engine controls for a ship. Smoke from ship's stack. Steam from ships horn. Two tug boats pull the RMS Aquitania 4-stacker Ocean liner in harbor, during fog. Men on pier cast off lines of the RMS Queen Elizabeth, as she prepares to depart. Tug boat behind the ship. British ensign is raised. Passengers line the deck rails. The RMS Queen Elizabeth moves under her own power in foggy harbor. RMS Queen Mary moves in harbor with assistance from tug boats. People wave from lookout on pier. People wave from pier, as RMS Queen Mary passes.

Date: 1940
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054747
Landing incidents aboard USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) during World War II

Slow motion pictures of operations aboard the USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) at sea, in the Atlantic ocean, during World War 2. Marines watch landing of U.S. Navy FM-2 Wildcat on the aircraft carrier as its tail wheel breaks off. The aircraft drags its tail as it passes close to the camera position, beside the flight deck. View of clouds in the sky (possibly unintended). U.S. Navy SB2C Helldiver approaches for landing and catches wire, bounces and hits the barrier. An F4U Corsair hits the barrier while landing and stands upright on its nose. Deck crews rush to the scene and lower the aircraft to a normal position.

Date: 1945, July
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040338
U.S. Navy Airships keep a vigil over a convoy in the Atlantic during World War II

U.S. Navy airships guard convoy in Atlantic in World War 2. Several K- type airships on ground at Lakehurst New Jersey. Bombs loaded aboard. Pilots get signal from control tower. The airships in flight. Airships keep a vigil. Navy airships patrol for German submarines. Coordination between Convoy Commander, escort vessels and planes. Bomb bay open and bombs dropping into ocean. . Convoy Vessels underway.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041815
British ship Patagonia is sunk by the German U-Boat, UB-7, during World War I

Opening slates indicate how seriously Britain views the German U-Boat campaign against Allied shipping in World War 1. Captain Wilhelm Werner of German U-Boat, UB7, is seen on deck with his officers consulting navigation charts. Their navigator sights the sun with a sextant to determine their latitude. Slate tells of their sinking of the British Steamer, "Patagonia." View of the Patagonia, stopped, in the Atlantic, and then listing and sinking. (This occurred on September 15, 1915, in the Atlantic ocean, off the coast of France.) Change of scene shows a crewmember of the UB-7 next to the conning tower, putting on his boots as a wave washes over his feet. Another slate about the seriousness of the U-Boat operations. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1915, September 15
Duration: 3 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675042363
The British Ship "Brisbane River," stopped (and sunk) by German U-Boat, UB-35, in World War I

View from the German U-Boat, UB-35, of the British ship, "Brisbane River," stopped in the Atlantic off the coast of North Africa, in World War 1. U-35 Captain, Lothar von Arnauld de la Periere, with the British ship's officers, aboard the submarine, examines their papers and Registry of Ships. Closeup of a Ship Registry showing the Brisbane River, listed as number 1219. The Captain crosses it off the Registry and pencils in the date: April 17, 1917. (As noted in opening slate, the actual sinking of the Brisbane River was not caught on camera, as filming was suspended due to the approach of British destroyers.) Later, the crew is seen on deck, taking showers, and enjoying themselves, swimming in the ocean.

Date: 1917, April 17
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675042364
A German U boat attacks a British ship and it sinks in unidentified waters

Introduction of captured German documentary films made by U-Boat crews during World War 1. J. M. Mackzum, Knights of the Columbus Secretary with the American Army of Occupation, who brought the films to the United States. A submarine seen at periscope depth, and then submerging completely. View from a surfaced German submarine, of a British tramp steamer in unidentified waters, likely North Sea, Atlantic Ocean, or Mediterranean Sea. View from conning tower of the submarine plowing through heavy seas. Crew of the U-Boat man their deck gun and fire at the steamer. Smoke obscures the scene somewhat. View of the ship settling in the water. (Slate says Captain and mate refused rescue and went down with the ship.) The steamer sinks bow first. Some smoke rises as her boilers are inundated. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1917
Duration: 2 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042366