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Cargoes (1939)

Cargoes (1939)

Documentary
Release Date: 1939, January 2
Directors: Humphrey Jennings
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Travel and Industrial Development Association, GPO Film Unit, Travel and Industrial Development Association, GPO Film Unit

Overview:

Shot in mid-1939 as S.S. Ionian (also shown as Her Last Trip), Humphrey Jennings’s GPO short follows the Royal Mail steamer on a last peacetime run through the Mediterranean—Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria, Haifa—under the gaze of the Mediterranean Fleet (HMS Barham, Malaya, Warspite). After the Ionian was sunk by a German mine on 29 November 1939 en route from Crete to Hull, the film was recut and released as Cargoes.