| | VHS Cassette (also available as DVD-R Video). AN EVOCATIVE SELECTION OF FILMS reviving days when Liverpool was home to some of the world's greatest liners and Birkenhead was birthplace for hundreds of vessels launched from Cammell, Laird's shipyard. Enjoy splendid period scenes of the river, docks and landing stage; Riverside station; the ever-attendant tugs; the rich and famous embarking and disembarking; the Cunard tender SKIRMISHER; and above all the liners themselves… Including:
- AQUITANIA
- MAURETANIA (I);
- MAURETANIA (II);
- DUCHESS OF ATHOLL;
- VOLTAIRE;
- REINA DEL PACIFICO;
- CEDRIC;
- EMPRESS OF BRITAIN (I);
- EMPRESS OF SCOTLAND (II);
- EMPRESS OF CANADA (III);
- PARTHIA/MEDIA;
- WINDSOR CASTLE;
- QE2.
- LAUNCHES include -
- MAURETANIA (II) in 1938;
- ARK ROYAL (II) in 1950;
- and WINDSOR CASTLE in 1958.
- SPECIAL FEATURES -
- pre-war colour of MAURETANIA (II);
- the raising of the EMPRESS OF CANADA in Gladstone Dock in 1954;
- and the `little liners` ST. SERIOL and ST. TUDNO.
Continent: Europe
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