Schooner Pamir sends out distress signals (1952)

GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS)

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Training ship Pamir sends out distress signals when she loses one of her anchors and begins to drift in rough seas with 40 cadets aboard

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KENT COAST:
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LIFEBOATMEN & LIFEBOATS. Air shots lifeboats in very heavy seas reaching ship in distress.. good

PAMIR On training voyage with cadets aboard hit by gales off Kent coast.. orders to abandon ship..shots of the ship from air, drifting along helplessly, life boats pull to ship to take off men..ship carries on after all.

Sailing Ships Pamir in use as training vessel for cadets in distress off East Coast.. aerial shots.. lifeboats to reach her in heavy swell..drifting helplessly..fluttering sails etc.

SEA. Shots of wreckage floating upon seas..from air..lifeboats put out in heavy sea...Pamir drifts helplessly in heavy swell

SHIPPING.. Air shots schooner Pamir drifting helplessly after hit by gale..shots fluttering sails etc

Ships and Boats; Weather; Disasters and Accidents; Scotland

boat, storm, disaster, trouble, SOS
Background: Training ship Pamir sends out distress signals when she loses one of her anchors and begins to drift in rough seas with 40 cadets aboard

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