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HMS Formidable Launches Herself
- Date released
- 21 Aug 1939
- Series name
- Pathe Gazette
- Issue no
- 39/67
- NoS ID
- 097380
- Story no
- 1 / 8
- Extras
- 1 film clip
When Lady Wood, accompanied by Sir Kingsley, arrives at Harland & Wolff’s Yard to launch HMS Formidable, little do they know that the day is to end in tragedy. Half an hour before the ship is due to be...
Destroyer’s Dive to Davy Jones’ Locker
- Date released
- 21 Aug 1939
- Series name
- Pathe Gazette
- Issue no
- 39/67
- NoS ID
- 097381
- Story no
- 2 / 8
- Extras
- 1 film clip
The Stalwart, once a destroyer with the Australian Navy and now just a hulk, is towed 20 miles from land loaded with 300 tons of rotten onions and sunk.
Grasmere Sports
- Date released
- 21 Aug 1939
- Series name
- Pathe Gazette
- Issue no
- 39/67
- NoS ID
- 097382
- Story no
- 3 / 8
- Extras
- 1 film clip
The famous athletic meeting which is nearly 200 years old, gathers the tough men from the north of England to compete in even tougher races.
Town Criers’ Contest at Lyme Regis
- Date released
- 21 Aug 1939
- Series name
- Pathe Gazette
- Issue no
- 39/67
- NoS ID
- 097383
- Story no
- 4 / 8
- Extras
- 1 film clip
Won by Mr BT Johnson of Fowey, Cornwall.
British Mission to the Soviet
- Date released
- 21 Aug 1939
- Series name
- Pathe Gazette
- Issue no
- 39/67
- NoS ID
- 097384
- Story no
- 5 / 8
- Extras
- 1 film clip
A further move in the discussions over the Anglo-Soviet pact, when the British and French Service Missions arrive in the Soviet capital.
Thames Ambulance Service
- Date released
- 21 Aug 1939
- Series name
- Pathe Gazette
- Issue no
- 39/67
- NoS ID
- 097385
- Story no
- 6 / 8
- Extras
- 1 film clip
Demonstration is staged by the River Emergency Service illustrating how injured could be transferred from shore to ship. The ship being used is the "Viscountess" which is normally a pleasure steamer but...
Launch of HMS Kenya
- Date released
- 21 Aug 1939
- Series name
- Pathe Gazette
- Issue no
- 39/67
- NoS ID
- 097386
- Story no
- 7 / 8
- Extras
- 1 film clip
The Duchess of Gloucester goes to Glasgow to name the new 80,000 ton cruiser.
Sir Malcolm Campbell
- Date released
- 21 Aug 1939
- Series name
- Pathe Gazette
- Issue no
- 39/67
- NoS ID
- 097387
- Story no
- 8 / 8
- Extras
- 1 film clip
Raises his own water speed record by eleven miles from 131 miles to nearly 142 miles an hour.