LAUNCH OF MV "LOCHEE"

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Title: LAUNCH OF MV "LOCHEE"

Reference number: 1991

Date: 1937

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 5.37 mins

Description: Launch of the MV "Lochee" in Leith and her maiden voyage on the River Tay on the 27th August 1937.

Title scratched on can "Launch of Lochee, later re-named Perth, by Lady Nairn, 8th July 1937".

Four films from the Dundee Perth and London Shipping Company - see also refs. 1990, 1992 and 1993

History of the company on file at ref. P/CN 125, "150 Years of Freighting 1826-1976". See also https://dpandl.co.uk/history/ [last accessed 21/07/2020]

Shotlist: No credits. Launch of the MV "Lochee" by Lady Nairn. gvs of the launch at Henry Robb, Leith. MV "Lochee" leaving the River Tay on her maiden voyage, 27th August 1937. Shots of the vessel (5.37)