Breaking Up Salvaged Cruiser At Rosyth (1937)

Title reads: “Rosyth“. Fife, Scotland. Breaking up salvaged German cruiser at Rosyth. Various shots of dockers breaking up rusty old German battleship from World War One. The ship lies upside down in a dry dock. She is being broken up to salvage scrap metal - extremely valuable now world is rearming. Narrator points out irony of this: “Steel that might have been used to attack Britain now comes to Britain’s defence“. FILM ID: 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 agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be v
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