NORTH SEA full Film WICK RADIO c/s GKR.
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- NORTH SEA - full Film - WICK RADIO c/s GKR in the year 1938.
In this movie there is the true story of the Oceanic Trawler "John Gillman" during a severe gale in the North Sea and the great assistance received by Wick Radio/ GKR until the end of the distress.
An uncle of mine worked at Wick radio in the '40s so this was good to see!
Beautiful Documentary...TOTAL RESPECT FOR ALL ! . FROM ANOTHER SEA PORT ..LIVERPOOL UK 🕊😪🌻🇬🇧
An excellent early film. I enjoyed this very much. Thanks.
I love this type of old "movie" They show the way things were before we had all the modern equipment! Great Stuff!!
As an Ex-R/O on larger ships... I can appreciate the drama shown here....Must have been very dangerous times back in 1938.
Brave men that did what they had to do...to feed their families, whatever the danger.
Now...just show up, and a life of comfort is all but guaranteed...at the expense of others, of course. How times change eh?
My uncle, a Canadian Naval Officer, was on loan from 1938 onward, sneaking down to Newport News to load military "stuff" for the war Britain knew was coming! He was loaned to Norwegian tankers and survived the war. Passed just recently. Radio Officers had to speak English, even though he joked once the war started they were under "radio silence" almost all the time!
There are still small private fishing vessels operating and it hasn't got any safer. A friend of mine was lost in coastal waters , after passing the heads on a trip round to a nearby bay. Took two days to find the body.
Flown over and even refuelled at the former RAF Wick many times. Beautiful area.
Same coal fired boats around in my childhood, lovely to see the engine and the vast numbers of fishing vessels at Aberdeen compared with now.
Excellent film, with a minimum of fuss, and just think what it must have been like for the camera crew.
Fine documentary -.-. .-..
the GPO did a whole series of these films before the war and they are terrific windows into the way life was then. Looking at this one though, it's the smoke hanging over the city that struck me the most, must have been 50/50 if asthma or the sea would get you first.
We are led to believe that CO2 immissions were much lower then than they are now, It must have been ECOSMOKE that all those coal fires, factory chimneys, steam trains and boats used to belch out into the atmosphere.
All for my fish supper... heros all
Neat little bit of history.
I found the boats odd and interesting.
They were steamships, OK, but they also had masts and sails.
What was with that?
The use of sails on old steam trawlers was used to improve the speed and seaworthiness of the vessel.
Seeing this reminds me as a kid of pea soup smog, horrible taste and not being able to see too far in front of you.
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What a wonderful documentary / Film