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PamM
First Class Passenger
Member # 2127

posted 03-04-2007 09:00 AM

From Tenko filmed in 1984.
Setting the scene - Singapore docks 1945 boarding "ss Ranchi"

No it's not... name the port and the vessel

Scene 2 - "ss Ranchi" sails away from Singapore

"ss Ranchi" appears to have become a different vessel entirely to that above.
Can you name the vessel and where this 'clip' was first seen..

As a bonus, I have no idea of the other vessel seen to the left in the distance, any takers?

Pam

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feargus
First Class Passenger
Member # 3982

posted 03-04-2007 09:23 AM

Canberra in southampton. the full shot of the ship? no idea, the one in the back ground looks like something Castle, go for the Windsor but probably wrong.

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mike sa
First Class Passenger
Member # 5957

posted 03-04-2007 10:17 AM

Canberra

Can't think of her name, did she not have a funnel and king posts removed later in life ? Why I want to say Andes I don't know.

Number 3 does look like a Castle ship but is all white, SA Vaal ? Looks a bit short for her though - the funnel is right.

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mike sa
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Member # 5957

posted 03-04-2007 10:22 AM

A trick question - it has just dawned on me she is the Ranchi. Lifeboats are the givaway.

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PeterUK
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Member # 1898

posted 03-04-2007 11:43 AM

In the first group of shots the first 3 are of Canberra, The fourth is I think a shot of the viewing gallery at Southampton docks alongside berths 105 to 107 with the lifebelt named Ranchi put up on the railings.

The other ship is I think the Irpinia of Siosa Lines which originally had two funnels was re engined and came out certainly by 1969 with one. However the funnels appear to have been doctored in the pictures as I am sure that the original were thinner and taller. The ship in the backgroung looks like one of the smaller Adriatica line ships.

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PamM
First Class Passenger
Member # 2127

posted 03-04-2007 11:49 AM

Yes, it's Canberra at Southampton, but no it's not ss Ranchi herself [she had a black hull and was built up right to the stern, see here].

Film buffs may guess as she was a feature of a well known film if 1976.

Pam

[ 03-04-2007: Message edited by: PamM ]

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oslo dutch
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Member # 4669

posted 03-04-2007 11:49 AM

Dockside shots SS Canberra.

Shipshots SS Iphinia, It seems they've taken it over from the movie voyage of the damned about the 1939 voyage of Jewish Nazi refugees on board SS St Louis ( Hamburg Amerika Linie)

Reint

See this link

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PamM
First Class Passenger
Member # 2127

posted 03-04-2007 12:54 PM

Indeed, Irpinia with dummy funnels as "St Louis" for Voyage of the Damned. Hamburg Amerika Line. A clip taken some 8 years earlier... and not really appropriate at all; an odd use of footage imo.

I think the ship behind must also be taken at Southampton, and guess it must be a Castle too, but not completely sure?

Pam

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PeterUK
First Class Passenger
Member # 1898

posted 03-04-2007 02:24 PM

With a white hull it could only be the S A Vaal too many decks for S A Oranje. I am not certain that this picture is taken in Southampton as the tug if that is what is it does't look like a Southampton tug.

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sslewis
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Member # 3649

posted 03-06-2007 05:15 AM

Well done Pam!
You got me very exited with this 2 funneler!
It looked like HAL had built the Vaterland of 1940 after all but it was filmed with a bad lense!
She looks top heavy though.....
I alsway like those imaginary liners from movies!
One I loved was the one from "Ghost ship" or the recent "Poseidon".
But yours are fascinating because they are somewhat exotic.....

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Aussie1
First Class Passenger
Member # 25

posted 03-07-2007 11:52 PM

I don't think the ship in the background could be the SA VAAL. I believe the shooting for Voyage of the Damned was done at Barcelona and that the IRPINIA didn't leave the Med during the filming. (And the SA VAAL never entered the Med in her Safamrine/Union Castle career.) All the interior scenes in the film were done in a studio but there are deck scenes shot aboard the ship.

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