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Polperro
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A real gem of a film - great to see this posted. Thank you.
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My dad is in the film using a brace and bit just after the funnel was fitted. He was a carpenter, was sent to Looe during the war to build boats
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Man that harbor at the beginning looks so comfy. It's a shame you can't see scenes like this anymore, at least not in America. These quiet little villages of brick and wood, with dozens of little bobbing masts out over the water, are essentially extinct these days. Given way in America to strip malls, condominiums, and hordes of fiberglass pleasure boats.
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The hull does not look like wood at all. What a paint job.
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How to denude a landmass, let me count the ways.
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Little ships with a very big heart.
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that's what Oakum is - "loose fiber obtained by untwisting old rope, used especially in caulking wooden ships."
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talk of job satisfaction, this is it must a been an amazing feeling to have worked on these boats n seen them launched n working successfully build by real craftsmen
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Deeds built on character.
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Joel: AMEN to that!
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I am always impressed by what people were able to accomplish during WWII. Look at these ships made of wood. I doubt there are enough skilled in this to do the same job today. Steel and computer engineering sure has made things a lot faster and easier, but I take my hat off in respect to these fine craftsmen. They are the generation that saved freedom and liberty (too bad their descendants didn't do the same).
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I'm very impressed with their skills.
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Golyy! Didn't know we had woodworking like this in England!
The Little Ships of England - the traditional craft of wooden boatbuilding, and the important roles those little ships play. They are made of British timber; oak, ash and elm. The same ship types that went to Dunkirk to rescue the many soldiers (see more below). Skilled shipwrights at work in a West- country shipyard, and shifts again to the exciting rescue of a fighter pilot by a launch on patrol. From Looe, Cornwall with opening shots in the Cornish fishing village of Polperro. The little ships of Dunkirk were 700 private boats that sailed from Ramsgate in England to Dunkirk in France between 26 May and 4 June 1940 as part of Operation Dynamo, the rescue of more than 338,000 British and French soldiers. This film has been made available for non-commercial research and educational purposes courtesy the British Council Film Collection. http://film.britishcouncil.org/british-council-film-collection/about-the-collection