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Moving Image / Launching of (AGOR 14) R/V Melville

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Title
Launching of (AGOR 14) R/V Melville
Date Created and/or Issued
1968
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
SIO Archive Film Collection
Rights Information
Unknown
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Rights Holder and Contact
UC Regents
Description
Located in Series 2) U.S. NAVY FILMS.
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
This digital file is a surrogate of an item from the SIO Archive Film Collection (Box 2, Folder 10).
Launch of an AGOR 14 (Auxiliary General Oceanography Research) oceanographic research vessel named MELVILLE at Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City, Michigan on July 10, 1968. The vessel was built by the U.S. Navy Oceanographic Office for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The film includes: shipyard scenes, images of three vessels (including R/V MELVILLE and a U.S. Navy Ship S.P. Lee), crowd at the launching, and workers using a crane to launch the vessel. By J. Walczak.
[Title, Date]. SIO Archive Film Collection. SMC 42. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Type
moving image
Format
1 film reel (5 min., 29 sec.) ; silent, color ; 16mm
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb1715354s
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Oceanographic research ships
Melville (Ship)

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