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Soundtrack is currently missing for this item. Liverpool, Merseyside. Various shots of dignitaries, including the Mayor of Liverpool (?) arriving at the dockside for the unveiling of a new figurehead for the old wooden walled battleship HMS Conway. The ship has been in dock for an overhaul and is used as a cadet training ship. Poet Laureate John Masefield makes a speech before a microphone and the figurehead is revealed. Brief shot of people in the crowd. General view of the ship in the dock. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as w
