Lamp-Lighters Of The Sea (1961) | British Pathé
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- Sailors are seen demonstrating the process of maintaining lightships, boats that acts as anchored lighthouses, and the 'street lamps of the sea' , buoys, in this colourful footage from 1961.
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(FILM ID:139.15)
Harwich, Essex.
Various shots of a Trinity House ship, The Vestal, leaving the harbour. It moves out to the Thames Estuary and moors alongside a light ship called 'Tongue'(yes, really!). Various shots as the anchor chain on the light ship is pulled in and replaced with a new one. Our ship pulls away from the light ship and moves off to find some buoys, "those street lamps of the sea".
Various navigation shots; a man on the bridge plots the course; C/U of the course being marked on a map. The Captain signals to the engine room as the ship approaches a buoy in the sea. Two men stand on the buoy and attach a winch to it; the buoy is hoisted aboard.
Several shots show the cleaning of the hanging buoy; seaweed and mussels are sloughed off the base, chain and anchor and thrown back into the sea. The cleaned buoy is then lowered back into the water.
Note: there is no print for this issue. Correspondence on file about the filming of this story between Pathe and Trinity House, plus notes on the sequences filmed.
Cuts exist - see separate record.
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Brilliant piece of film. My dad's uncle was at sea his whole life, deep sea. But spent his last 25 years on these remarkable lightship. I'd sit open mouthed at his tales, fantastic, kindhearted man, no wife, truly married to the sea, his rum and an exotic lady tattoo on his forearm. I miss them chats and his fifty pence piece gift when he got home and visited my grans (his sister) as soon as he arrived in Liverpool on leave. RIP 🙏 Uncle Richard. X gbnf. Grandfather worked these too.
I can hear this guy talk all day about any subject.
Beautiful ship.
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Great footage and humour
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There use to be one of these ships at Calshot in the Solent in when I was a kid in the 60s
Exellent
Is that Dan Lauria at 1:12 ?
Mission?
Why don't they just let the crustaceans or whatever they are grow on the chains forever? They aren't going to eat the chain.
They make the chain much harder to work with. They bring with it dirt and minerals, making it heavier, and less willing to bend.
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