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Title: T.S.S. NEVASA

Reference number: 8844

Date: 1956c

Production company: Templar Film Studios

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 8.06 mins

Description: The troopship TSS 'Nevasa' is released from dry dock in Glasgow and starts her first voyage down the Clyde for trials on the Firth of Clyde.

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(0.00) blank (0.04) gvs of troopship 'Nevasa' at berth in dock - shots of dry dock gates opening, tug approaching to attach ropes, worker detaching mooring rope from capstan - gvs of Nevasa at dock - high angle shots from Clydebank yard of Nevasa being towed down Clyde by tugs (1.53) blank (2.02) gvs from Renfrew of Nevasa passing on Clyde, local people watching, Yoker power station on opposite bank (3.09) gvs from Erskine of Nevasa passing, people on river bank waving, children paddling in water, smaller cargo ship passing, bull in field in foreground - l/shots of Nevasa on Clyde, foliage in foreground (4.39) blank (4.46) gvs Nevasa on Firth of Clyde, Gourock ferry passes in foreground - gvs of Nevasa from deck of ferry - tracking shots around Nevasa from boat (5.59) blank (6.07) l/shots of Nevasa on firth from deck of boat - l/s with hills in background (7.12) blank (7.20) more l/shots of Nevasa on firth from deck of boat (7.49) blank (8.06)