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Title

View of the christening podium and guests of honour at the launch ceremony of the 10,000-ton cargo ship, the S.S. Fort Esperance, from the United Shipyards Ltd. shipyard. 

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Item (linked) part of

National Film Board of Canada. Still Photography Division [graphic material] (R1196-14-7-E)

Bilingual equivalent

Vue des invités d'honneur et de l'estrade servant au baptême du bateau lors de la cérémonie de lancement du navire de charge de 10 000 tonneaux Fort Esperance au chantier naval United Shipyards Ltd

Date(s)

Sept. 1943

Place

Montreal, Quebec

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

1 photograph
Negative Film B/W - cellulose nitrate

Language of material

English

Conditions of access

Graphic (photo)
90: Open
Nil
Item no. (creator)
WRM 3796
Other accession no.
1971-271 NPC

Terms of use

Credit: National Film Board of Canada. Photothèque / Library and Archives Canada /
Restrictions on use: Nil
Copyright: Expired

Additional name(s)

Photographer: Unknown.

Additional information

Series title
WRM

Signatures and inscriptions
"MULTIPLE LAUNCHING ON 'SHIPS FOR VICTORY' DAY. Canada, a nation with virtually no shipbuilding industry in 1939, celebrated the launching of her first home-built Tribal destroyer by sending 12 ships down the ways on the same day, a record in Canadian shipbuilding history. The multiple launching dramatized the Dominion's newly-attained position as one of the world's important ship-producing..."

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Government

Other system control no.

DAPDCAP564555

MIKAN no.

3196930