Shipyard 1935 documentary

[Music] [Music] in the north of Lancashire lies barrow-in-furness between 50 and 60,000 people live there for the most part their livelihood depends on the building of ships the life of the town is the work of the yard Joetta splitter age 44 John Dalton copper age 32 shipwrights welders riveters drop stampers stainless Smith's riggers strikers heaters hammer boys drillers from steel Street Lancaster Road Hawker Street Oldham buildings Victoria Terrace Clyde Street the high level bridge there's the phasing for each day order number six nine seven strokes b-36 in time to take backside air here Robert speaking look that those pens and chronicler iron rivets ordered us how many 50 boxes fake smile stealin [Music] [Music] [Music] stirlitz angle pieces sections and 101 orders are in hand four six nine seven drop hammers electropneumatic summary on steam hydraulic presses are shaping fortunes in guts and billets no PC worms for Shelley year fall among all doors connecting rods flanges loose lips for Derrick's shafts of the 20 feet long in the yard under the shadow of tower cranes and directs the 697 begins to grow in her birth the vertical keel plates have been laid and tank frame is in progress [Music] all over the double bottom villas platers and riveters advancing their squads ladies put to the framing to build up a shell [Music] at the stern massive blocks are piled up support horizontal framing [Music] the transverse framing and dick flooring of the tank top is finished soon the slender side going up back in the work to cross the way the plate is shop and smithy work on component parts goes ahead [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Oh propeller brackets are now fixed at the stern the framing has been extended up over the blocks and the rudder post towers high in the air all over the deck flooring slacks won't advance while on the ground beside the ship use sections in Bullhead are fabricated [Applause] [Applause] well that's that section after section is guided into place and fixed to the beam knees until the hole is subdivided by transverse watertight divisions while above beside friends go higher and work gets more dangerous 25% of the framing and plating is worked in six nine seven begins to take real shape and on Sunday mornings [Applause] the week's go by and six nine seven is no longer just a mass of Steel the four attend with its triangular tapering bulkhead shows the lines that the side plates will take on every deck in the shell on the ceiling and all of the nearby ground the work goes on eight and a half hours a day five and a half days a week [Music] with her skeleton framing covered by a suit inflates the orient liner begins to show a side overhanging every workers life in town yard as she stretches her 600 feet down towards the water in which she will ultimately spend her days all day long our never-ending possession of workers comes on and off the ship under the bilge killing more and more Shores are needed to support the ever-growing wait a stern up the ton of Steel hangs down from the shop I above along his side the thunder of 100 squads shatter the air Royals and 5/8 men each with their fires and tackle ads paid by the hundred rivets mr. Machin this plumbing Cheverus in more bloomin side of the world and ever I'm likely to one Fabray Jeanette if just like it see on the pictures [Music] I wouldn't mind going on a myself we're to think that women will be walking about here just in silk dresses and chaps and nutty shouts trying to Cape Cove don't suppose a thing of the block that hit the blinking rivets must be getting pretty near the buzzer deep down in the bowels will be housed the high-pressure twin-screw single reduction geared turbines designed to give 24,000 shaft horsepower on the speed of 21 and a half knots [Music] across the way they are assembling the six voltage you borrow in every day of the machine shops and in the erecting pit some part of the turbines is being made back on the ship the tail-shaft for coupling up with the propellers is maneuvered down to the chef Tony the superstructure is well advanced huge spaces forgive sports and games next for walking reading and sunbathing open-air swimming pools and dance floors must be provided for the tropical voyages which will form a greater part of 697 flight [Music] but scaffolding still covers the stern as she sits securely above the water and all the time as she grows higher and bigger the life of the town goes on every mouth being fed everybody being floored by the work of the men in the yard over the shops and the fun over the cinema in the market towers of 70 [Music] [Music] soon she'll be ready for the propeller they are being laid down south of run alongside of us for the fastest in hardship [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] prefer yard zero our approaches the ways are greased so that she'll slide smoothly and gracefully into the water while up on the decks last rivets are being driven rushing waves and being picked for the new nickname be completed and everything is while the town sleep heater blocks and bridges must be driven out to saw that the 13,000 tons will remain just held by the trigger hey we're down this nice at night [Music] 10300 tons of plants and sections three million fun heads encounter some credits [Music] thirteen thousand tons on the launching weighs 24,000 tons in all when she's finished Li ready to be launched by Wireless from Australia by His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester 12,000 miles and also named will you tie another line I'm not getting you - well that's better right here now said Nick they'll be getting all set up there now it'll be a fine sight you know the set on is being relayed on the Empire and all the regional programs so all the busy housewives will be able to listen in well Sydney there will be about ready up there now it's just 2 minutes to 11 here are y'all ok ok cheerio Sydney the time being [Music] before performing the act of Mantic which will code this beautiful ship to take the water so many miles away I send a greeting to my countrymen a Darwin furnace we're also fortunate that we present at her launching and her sponsor I offered to the youngest daughter of the family mighty vaccinations on her birthday and I wish on many happy returns and averages between England and Australia I named you are on good fortune attend you always [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music]

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Length: 23min 48sec (1428 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 21 2020