Steel Goes To Sea (1941)
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Following the creational journey of vessel number 242 from steel skeleton to majestic giant gliding gracefully out onto the water, Steel Goes To Sea charters the ins and outs of the ship building industry and those who work within it.
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My father Charles Signal Nelson worked his entire life on ships such as number 242 shown being built here back in 1941. Dad sailed all his life and he was also on a Mine Sweeper during WWII and was a United States Merchant Marine after being in the Navy. He died October 10th, 1973 just 2 weeks before he was to retire as a Chief Engineer. I am to this day and shall be for the rest of my life extremely proud of my father as are all my siblings and his wife our mother.
So you should!!!!
I warm to your pride!
But the name "Signal" ....
Connected to Nelson's "England expects ....."?
Or some other reason?
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It is signally unusual!
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As an American watching this film i was brought to tears .The British people should be so proud of themselves for the backbone with wich they helped save the world
Fascinating and, by the end, dramatic and moving. The lost world of ships made by hand in British shipyards.
They made history of shipbuilding themselves.. Bravo! Thanks for uploading this good. Good day x
Traditional British ship building...... and they built many. When a new build was launched, the whole town turned out to watch. It was all about craft, pride, community, and ownership.
So much of this hard work has now been lost,
Sad to think such things have all gone now!
Beautiful look at a noble profession at the time a great nation's achievements were reaching their pinnacle.
Also makes one realize the sadness and futility of war. When a ship like "246" is torpedoed and goes to the bottom, that is hundreds of man hours, sweat and industry going down, together with the courageous mariners aboard.
But it's the unbending spirit of people like the yard workers here that helped the right cause win victory time and time again.
Rule Britannia!
Oh, WAY more than "hundreds" of man-hours. Countless thousands.
a million thanks for sharing this documentary.... BRAVO....! Well done...
Note how those red hot rivets are just tossed around. Those guys knew what they were doing!
Myself and most of my family worked in shipyards on the river Wear (Sunderland),when I saw that boy I saw myself in 1960.
This kind of short film nust have made people proud but also happy and belonging,how hard life was then but simple.
That was very good for it's time. Very informative.
Thanks, that was great!
i come from a town called clydebank. if your interested, look up our shipbuilding history. very interesting
I never ever guessed that this was the way the ribs were made ?
And that's how it's done. Fast forward 80 years, and the processes are much the same, only a lot less manpower and ships a thousand times bigger. I imagine hearing wasn't kept for long in that racket. An OSHA person would have conniptions seeing a yard like this.
They knew how to work hard those days!
oft commented upon in these films. War time diets and hard physical work made for better health; statistically heart disease diminished during and immediately after the war. I suppose that advance was offset by tobacco use to a certain degree.
This is Awesome!! No wonder the Shipbuilders in our country reacted like they did!! We were the World Leaders for Gods Sake! Maggie you sold us out Big Time!!
Still used the same machinery 1970,s as used in this .
Not one of these men ever heard this film.
This guy on the 2:41😂😂😂😂😂o God, its me, if l built this ship😂😂😂😂😂
Tinnitus
For a comparison building Liberty ships at about the same time at Bethlehem Steel shipyards in the US, have a look:
th-cam.com/video/VzuF1EtpWEs/w-d-xo.html
History is fascinating you never cease to learn. Extremely enriching . and a greater comprehension of how these wonderful craftsmen ;were abandoned when these crown jewels, were sold off to foreigners, in high finance deals, BAD DEALS FOR UK. Some made fortunes ,the others on welfare ,when the work had gone to slavery countries, CHEAPER.
LOWE sonia
, the same thing has happened to the US with companies closing their plants and moving to areas of cheap, near slave labor all in the name of the almighty buck! Labor unions with their incessant greed and constantly growing demands caused a lot of it but corporate greed also is to blame. All one has to do is look at what was once the mighty automotive city of Detroit, Michigan, and the closed, abandoned massive factory buildings to get an idea of what this culture of greed on both sides has cost.
@@richardcline1337 'Greed the beginning of all evil' I agree with this Word of Jesus. And we all are greedy by nature! God bless you!
The one thing I learnt from this film is that they were still riveting "the hard way" fifty years or so after the adoption of the Pneumatic Riveter.
No propeller when lainched??
Would be gutted if a ship sank after all that work.
Thy did..many on their first voyage -by torpedo....
where was this filmed? Is this Tyneside?
Not sure but looks like the Clyde
Dave's mate is jock,must be clydebank.
APRIL 2024
WHAT HAPPENED TO BRITISH SHIP BUILDING- ONCE THE GREATEST IN THE WORLD
J MAY
VANCOUVER CANADA
And what became of these craftsmen; when the politicians sold out to TATA STEEL.?Today i read the British bourse had been planning, for a year to a 50 50% deal with Germanys Bourse . But this has been Stopped, by Brussels Who have made conditions unexceptable to England?
The traitors in Parliament should be forced to watch this series, to remind them that Great Britain was once great.
@Andrew Robinson I think it is a suitable word to use to describe a group of people who frequently work to suppress the ethnic majority of the country (the Anglo Saxons) and destroy the values and freedoms that created our country and made it great.
@Andrew Robinson You certainly have a bee in your bonnet, and obviously think you are very smart. However If you want to talk about indigenous people, how far do you go back? Almost every country of the world has had multiple layers of occupation, even by different types of hominids. Remember the Neanderthals were in Europe before the Homo Sapiens arrived. Even todays Australian aboriginals are known to be at least the third wave of people to arrive there, and it's highly likely there were more waves, unknown at the current time. The occupiers of Britain for many centuries were commonly known as the Anglo Saxons, although anyone with any sort of education knows that is a generalisation. In almost every country of the world the government and police are there to serve and protect the countries majority, but for reasons unknown that seems to be no longer the case of Britain.
Perhaps these guys should help the snp with their ferries
@@simonfitton7536or the RN with their aircraft carriers.
Britain colonised stole and enslaved much of its so called glorious past. It was as great as the third reich was
Watching this warms my Heart ❤ but now I know our country is FKCUED
It had NO PROP ........?????????
WW2 1939-1945.
english people don't forget the yemeni sailors ! yeah the first arabic arrived in uk were the yemenis from south they have a history there
Yep..I used to wander around Tiger Bay in Cardiff as a kid in 1940s..seaman from all corners of the globe lived together...mind you..the cops used to march down there in a squad of 6 on duty in the evenings!!
narrator.....To us, perhaps, one plate seems the same as another. But the men know exactly where each plate belongs, including this one-->"HITLER IS A BXXXX"
i bet they all went deaf after a while.
If the rib isnt perfect you CAN THROW IT AWAY