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Title: LAUNCH OF THE ROYAL SCOTSMAN AND ROYAL ULSTERMAN

Reference number: 2789

Date: 1930s

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 2.53 mins

Description: The launching of the "Royal Scotsman" and "Royal Ulsterman", vessels for the MacBrayne line between Glasgow and Belfast.

A Burns Laird launch. Within a few years of this launch, the Ulsterman had been absorbed into the Royal Navy as a troop carrier.

Shotlist: gvs the "Royal Scotsman" going down slipway into dock with shipworkers standing by watching (The End) (0.48) Travel by the de-luxe Clydeway Route Launch of the new motor vessels "Royal Scotsman", "Royal Ulsterman" for the Accelerated Clydeway Route between Glasgow and Belfast pan of ship before launch, c/u shot hull of "Royal Ulsterman" (1.16) launch party of unid. dignitaries and launching of ship (1.53) The most up-to-date cross Channel vessels complete with every modern requirement ensuring comfort, luxury and speed shot of "Royal Scotsman" in stocks prior to launch, workers pushing away stocks, launch party going on board, and c/u keel of ship as it moves down slipway (2.53)