New British battleship HMS Howe

HMS Howe at dock, workers on dock / two workers painting artillery / workers maybe painting ship's deck / MS sparks flying from welder's torch on pipes, welder wearing big gloves and face shield / workers walking from HMS Howe down gangplank / ship builder officials and British Naval officers seated at table signing papers as the Naval captain takes over the ship / MS official talking to officer about workings of ship's boiler or engine room / workers carrying sacks from rail car up gangplank passing others coming down as supplies are loaded onto the Howe / worker unloads sack / container of artillery shells being loaded by crane to the Howe / crane hook raising shell up / workers receiving and guiding shell / sailors filing up Howe's gangplank / sailors and officers ceremoniously standing on deck, can see band director moving baton as chaplain holds dedication service / VS sailors and officers at ceremony / MS sailors / birdseye pan ship and shipyard / pan from workers on dock pulling ship's mooring lines to include other side of canal as tugboats tow ship / workers pulling line and looping it around bollard / men with line in fg, sailors lined up on ship's deck in bg / Note: exact day not known