REPORT ON HMS UNICORN AND ATTEMPTS TO RISE MONEY TO PRESERVE HER. TUGS MOVING HER INTO DRY DOCK AT DUNDEE FOR SURVEY
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Title: REPORT ON HMS UNICORN AND ATTEMPTS TO RISE MONEY TO PRESERVE HER. TUGS MOVING HER INTO DRY DOCK AT DUNDEE FOR SURVEY
Reference number: T1630
Date: 1972
Production company: STV
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 1.35 mins
Description:
The Unicorn, at 148 years old being the fourth oldest ship in the world and the last remaining ship built in Britain of Nelson's type of fleet, languishes in the docks awaiting the £250, 000 needed for preservation work to begin.
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Shotlist: Visuals of the Unicorn in dock (0.20) Iv. with Captain W Rennie Stewart [Founder Governer of the Unicorn Preservation Society] on the costs of preservation and what is being done to raise that money (1.14) Tugs tow the Unicorn (1.29) Pan of the galleon (1.35)