DEFENCE: Launch of the Ark Royal aircraft carrier (1937)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Launch of the ’Ark Royal’, Britain’s biggest aircraft carrier by Lady Maude Hoare at Birkenhead, USS Yorktown undergoing trials and Queen Wilhelmina launching the liner ’Nieuw Amsterdam’ in the Netherlands. Full Description: VARIOUS LOCATIONSEXT Rotterdam, Holland: G.V. liner. on boat. L.V. Queen Wilhelmina arrives. T.C. crowd. S.V. acknowledges . boat launched. S.V. pan. down slipway. S.V. boat in water. G.V. tugs pulling boat. ENGLAND: Lady Hoare Launches Aircraft Carrier “Ark Royal.“ BIRKENHEAD, ENGLAND G.V. pan. from crowd to ship. S.V. Sir. S. Hoare & wife on platform. L.V. Lady Hoare throws bottle twice. CU. Sir. Samuel smiling. L.V. Lady Hoare throws bottle. G.V. ship down slipway. U.S.: Latest American Aircraft Carrier undergoes Trials. Newport, Va., U.S. G.V. aircraft carrier at sea. S.V. & G.V. boat