Life-Boat Rights Itself (1966)

Full title reads: “Portsmouth. Life-Boat Rights Itself“. Portsmouth Naval Dockyard, Hampshire. A new lifeboat that will not capsize is demonstrated. GV The new lifeboat. SV Interior of the lifeboat showing radar and radar equipment. CU Pan ditto. SV The designer Mr Richard Oakley giving thumbs-up sign. SV The lifeboat pan up to crane. SV The lifeboat being turned over by the crane. Cables are released and the lifeboat turns over right side up again. SV People watching. SV The lifeboat being turned over again. This time it goes over in a full circle and rights itself. (Orig. Neg.) 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