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Cockatoo Island: Newsreel Film of Dockyard Activities c.1939

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by Adrienne Parr

This clip is made up of three newsreel segments cut together to illustrate activities at the Cockatoo Island dockyard, in Sydney Harbour, 1936.

Curator’s notes

In 1933 the Commonwealth leased the Cockatoo Island dockyard, in Sydney Harbour, to Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Co. The company went on to administer a particularly active period for the dockyard preceding and during the Second World War. This clip is made up of three newsreel segments from 1936. The first shows the launching of HMAS Swan, a Grimsby class sloop, on 28 March 1936. The second, about 57 seconds in, shows repairs being carried out on the Dutch tanker Vaardas in the Sutherland Dry Dock. The third, about 1 minute 38 seconds in, is a montage of turbine and machine shop work.

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