News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue

Issue No.

743

Date Released

6 May 1918

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Women’s War Works - Forage Section. Inspection of WAA Corps (Asc) by Lt Gen Sir John Maxwell
• 2. The Shipping Crisis - America’s Great Effort. The Construction and Launch of a Concrete Ship. The ‘Faith’ is One of Many Now Leaving the Slips
• 3. How to Save Time with Your Potatoes
• 4. Hunnish Warfare. Members of the American YMCA Who Were Rescued from Torpedoed Liner ‘Oronsa’
• 5. A Wooden Cunarder. The ‘War Mystery’, the First of a New Fleet Which is Being Built at the Rate of a Ship a Month

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 5

Summary

Men at work on hull. Ship launched. Newspaper headline: "6 million tons of ships sunk by submarines in last 12 months".

Keywords

Ships and boats; Industry and manufacture; Launchings

Library number GR

2268

Length of story (in feet)

95

Story extras:

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