World’s Record AKA World’s Record Lift (1924)

Southampton, Hampshire. Title: “WORLD’S RECORD LIFT. 52,022 ton Cunarder ’Berengaria’ raised high and dry in 2 hours in mammoth floating dock“. Various L/Ss of an ocean liner moving slowly onto a floating dock - the dock is a gigantic u-shaped vessel, the flat bottom sits under the sea allowing ships to sail onto it. L/S of the liner sitting on the dock - its entire hull is out of the water, smaller boats sail around the dock dwarfed by its enormity. M/S of the ships propeller resting on scaffolding while men make repairs, tilt up to show vast rudder. (Some white spacing follows). L/S of workers walking on the bottom of the floating dock which has now been lifted out of the water, the colossal hull of the ship towers over them. L/S of the space between the hull of the ship and the metal side of the floating dock. More shots of the ship sailing onto the floating dock guided by tug boats. L/S of the ocean liner in the floating dock taken from the quayside at Southampton, two little girls walk p