Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Television Newsreel films the RMS Queen Mary's annual maintenance in dry dock, and the men and women undertaking the myriad little preparations that precede each voyage.


Clip taken from BBC Television Newsreel, originally broadcast on BBC Television, 17 December, 1951.





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