Tanker Torn Apart By Raging Seas (1960)

Location: Cape Hatteras and Newport, North Carolina, United States of America (USA) Story of the tanker ’Pine Ridge’ capsized off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina Title reads: “Drama of tanker torn apart by raging seas“ LS. Across fairly rough sea of half a tanker adrift. Aerial shots of the stern half of the tanker ’Pine Ridge’ floundering in the Atlantic. LS. Tanker with two helicopters flying round it. Aerial view, wrecked tanker clearly showing damage. MS. Helicopter on the flight deck, of US Carrier ’Valley Forge’. MS. CU. Some survivors of the tanker on board the aircraft carrier. CU. Captain Clarence Melvin of ’Pine Ridge’ describing his ship’s plight to interviewer on the aircraft carrier, pan with the interviewer as he walks across to group of survivors standing on deck of the carrier, zoom in to C.U. one of the survivors being interviewed. Aerial view of the damaged tanker with rescue ships standing by. Various shots of the salvaged half of the tanker in Newport, Virginia. Various shot
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