A Trip Around Southampton Docks

From the collection of

Wessex Film and Sound Archive is based in Winchester. Providing the opportunity to see and hear history, the archive contains nearly 40,000 film, video and sound recordings relating to Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, ranging from late Victorian times to the present day. It includes both amateur and professional material, local newsreels, military and maritime subjects, as well as footage produced by individuals, businesses and organisations.

A Trip Around Southampton Docks

Wessex Film and Sound Archive
Southampton Water
1960-01-01
Silent
7m

This marvellous film starts at Southampton's Town Quay where passengers board Blue Funnel’s Solent Queen. Sailing out onto Southampton Water we pass a variety of ships moored at their berths. We see cargo ships being loaded as well as a number of famous ocean going liners including RMS Pendennis Castle, the SS United States and the RMS Queen Elizabeth. Soon it's time to return to the Town Quay where the happy passengers disembark and we get a final look at the Solent Queen.

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