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Official launching ceremony for eight motor tow-boats built in Auckland for United States armed forces
- Date
- 21 Aug 1943
- Reference
- 1/4-000603-F
- Description
Official launching ceremony for eight motor tow-boats built in Auckland for the United States armed forces. Shows a crowd on a wharf alongside two boats decorated with flags. Photograph taken by John Pascoe, 21 August, 1943.
Caption - Caption in Pascoe file in Photographic Archive reads: "A launch gets this view of a launching, with the spectators and shipyards below a magnificent sky."
Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - above image - 20,603
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Film negative
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Film negative, Orientation: Square image
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