Steel Goes To Sea (1941)

Documentary of Second World War vintage that shows a British shipyard at work, building merchant ships around the clock, at a time when this was vital to the nation's survival.

If I'm of a mind to award myself a Big Chief I-Spy award for this film, then spotting "Yard No. 242" and knowing that this was filmed Burntisland Shipbuilding Co., Fife, would make the ship under construction the SS Ger-y-Bryn.

SS Ger-y-Bryn was a British registered cargo steamer of 5,108 GRT. She was lost in 1943, torpedoed NW of Lisbon by U-130 while part of Convoy XK-2. All 47 members of the crew were rescued by the Royal Navy corvette HMS Coreopsis (K 32).

The film ends with the keel laying of "Yard No. 247" which would be the SS Tudor Queen.