HMS Illustrious Launched (1939)

Full titles read: “HMS ILLUSTRIOUS“ L/S’s of Lady Henderson (wife of late controller of the Vickers Armstrong Yard) throwing champagne bottles onto the bow of the enormous new warship. Very good L/S’s and M/S’s of the new aircraft carrier sliding down the ramp. The commentator says that it is the largest ship ever to have been built at the Barrow yard in Cumbria. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.