Summary

1932 launch and christening of SS Santa Paula in New Jersey

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Pathe
Negative # 3825
Clip SR003961_03_01.mov
Date 06/11/1932
Title 1932 launch and christening of SS Santa Paula in New Jersey
Description Title card: "Shipping Circles Hail New Liner as Mark of Progress - Mrs. Edward T. Ford names $5,000,000 Santa Paula of Grace Line of Kearny, NJ" / LS workers use logs to pound at underpinnings under hull / men pounding / men pounding at log men holding; it breaks free / Mrs. Edward T. Ford, wife of the president of the Panama Mail Service of the Grace Line, christens ocean liner with champagne bottle, woman stands behind her holding bouquet / Ford and group on christening stand, maybe bottle goes into water as ship slips away, can see numbers on bow / stand and crowd below as ship launches into river, banner with word Grace on stand, scaffolding to sides, people waving / ship launching, workers below, crowd to side and women in fg / ship sliding into river / pan length of ship / ship seen through scaffolding / WS ship in river, crowd covers launch site, opposite shore in bg / ship on water, tugboats on sides, crane and crowd watching, backs of heads in fg
Country United States
Province/State New Jersey
City Kearny

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