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  • Short Summary

    Much damage is done but no lives are lost when steamer "Torchbearer" crashes into German steamer "Ibis" in dense fog on the river Tyne.

  • Description

    Item title reads - Heard three miles away but fortunately no lives lost as newly built steamer "Torchbearer" crashes into German steamer "Ibis" in dense fog in the Tyne.

    M/S as the camera pans down to front of the "Ibis", a man peers out from the hole in the front caused by the crash. M/S as the camera pans down the ship showing the holes and damage, M/S of the front of the "Torchbearer" which is bent and buckled from the crash.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    818.06
    Media URN:
    18849
    Group:
    Pathe newsreels
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    20/02/1930
    Sound:
    Silent
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:00:40:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:08:12:00 / 01:08:52:00
    Canister:
    G 1687

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