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Catalogue Reference:(IWM) IND177

A trawler being built in a shipyard in India during World War Two. The blocks on which the keel (the structure running lenthgwise down the base of a ship) has been laid are being removed in order to be able to bolt the sections of the keel together. The blocks are being removed by muscle power alone - there is no machinery available to take the strain.

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