“Empress Of Australia“ Launched AKA Sydney: Launch Of Empress Of Australia (1964)

Unissued / unused material - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown. Australian newsreel item. Title reads: “£3 1/2 Mil. Liner: ’Empress Of Australia’ Launched In Sydney“. Sydney, Australia Aerial shot of Sydney and the harbour. Aerial shot of “Empress of Australia“ on the stocks in the Cockatoo Dockyard which will operate between Sydney and Tasmania. Various shots, scale model of the ship on exhibition with some of the side cut away to show parts of the interior. CU Still photograph of the first “Empress of Australia“ which was built in 1914. CU Sketch of the docks 150 years ago when the first ship was built, it was only 13 feet long. CU Stills of the Ferndale and Fordsdale being built in 1926 at Cockatoo Dockyard. GV The new “Empress of Australia“ ready for launching. MS Men hammering out the wedges or “chocks“ to launch the ship. (2 shots). Various shots, the Honourable Catherine Sidney, daughter of the Governor General Lord De L’Isle, mounts the rostrum and performs the ceremony. Low a