A sponsored film by Turners Film Productions of the launch of the bulk carrier ship August Pacific at the North Sands shipyard of William Doxford and Sunderland Shipbuilding & Engineering Company on the 5 March 1969. The sponsor was Mrs Y. D. Chowgule of Pacific Bulk Carriers Ltd. Title: Launch of M.V. August Pacific - 5th March 1969 Title: Sponsor - Mrs Y.D. Chowgule Title: Owners - Pacific Bulk Carriers Ltd. Title: Builders - The Doxford And Sunderland Shipbuilding and Engineering...

 A sponsored film by Turners Film Productions of the launch of the bulk carrier ship August Pacific at the North Sands shipyard of William Doxford and Sunderland Shipbuilding & Engineering Company on the 5 March 1969. The sponsor was Mrs Y. D. Chowgule of Pacific Bulk Carriers Ltd. Title: Launch of M.V. August Pacific - 5th March 1969 Title: Sponsor - Mrs Y.D. Chowgule Title: Owners - Pacific Bulk Carriers Ltd. Title: Builders - The Doxford And Sunderland Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. Ltd. - North Sands Shipyard, Sunderland The film opens with the hull of the ship under construction on the slipway. A worker looks down from the deck at the rear of the ship. The camera moves down to show the ships rudder and the area where the propellor will be mounted. A close-up of the rudder follows. The plates which form the hull are all in place, but not painted. The name August Pacific appears on the bow. A nearby crane towers over the ship. A platform for the launch is constructed in front of the ship's bow.  Officials and guests make their way up the long gangway to the platform. One of the female guests carries a bouquet of flowers. A garland of flowers is hung on the hull of the ship next to the ancient religious symbol of good luck in the shape of a swastika. It is splashed with water from a flower, by the sponsor, Mrs Y.D. Chowgule. The garland of flowers is moved and positioned over the symbol, more of the ceremony continues where food seems to be proffered to the ship. The owners and officials pose for an official photograph. Guests mingle. Mrs Chowgule launches the champagne bottle vigorously against the hull of the ship. The guests applaud and the ship slides slowly down the slipway and into the Wear. The restraining chains are pulled taut by the ship in a cloud of dust. Tugs manoeuvre the ship on the river. On the platform guests and officials mingle, then they  leave the platform via the gangway. The film cuts to a view of the ship on the river, with two tugs at the front slowly towing the ship. A view of a crane follows, some floodlights on an upper deck of the crane shining downwards. The ship is manoeuvered in the failing daylight. Rows of lights illuminate a now empty slipway. Title: Filmed by Turners Film Productions, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England