Worlds Largest Floating Dock (1925)

Item title reads World s largest floating dock weighing 40, 000 tons, 700 feet long and 200 feet broad, surrendered by Germany, leaves to complete salvage of remaining sunken battleships at Scapa Flow. Queensborough, Kent. The camera pans down the docks to people walking about by a big tower, it pans across to men walking along carrying a pipe. M, S of the dock, a rope is untied and the dock floats away from the harbour. Men walk about on the deck, various shots of them working on it. M, S as it sails away, M, S of it from various angles, the camera pans across it. Note: the cuts run from 01:50:18 to the end of the item. FILM A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136, 000 items from the news agenci