Cockatoo Island: Newsreel Film of Dockyard Activities
Clip 1: Cockatoo Island dockyard 1936
2 min 39 sec
Taken from the historical footage Cockatoo Island: Newsreel Film of Dockyard Activities (c1939)
Original title classification not known – this clip chosen to be G
Availability of the complete title
Curator’s clip description
This clip is made up of three newsreel segments cut together to illustrate activities at the Cockatoo Island dockyard, in Sydney Harbour, 1936.
Curator’s notes
In 1933 the Commonwealth leased the Cockatoo Island dockyard, in Sydney Harbour, to Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Co. The company went on to administer a particularly active period for the dockyard preceding and during the Second World War. This clip is made up of three newsreel segments from 1936. The first shows the launching of HMAS Swan, a Grimsby class sloop, on 28 March 1936. The second, about 57 seconds in, shows repairs being carried out on the Dutch tanker Vaardas in the Sutherland Dry Dock. The third, about 1 minute 38 seconds in, is a montage of turbine and machine shop work.
Adrienne Parr, curator
