Cruiser Slips Away At Launching To Mark Christening Rites

Cruiser Slips Away At Launching To Mark Christening Rites Large crowd watching launching. Hindenburg & other military VIPs seen from above. Navy ships fires salutes. 01:43:49 Von Hindenburg w/ ?? walks up incline to viewing & launch platform; other military saluting. LS of platform at front of ship. High angle shot of sailors. MS of Hindenburg & Naval officer, other VIPs in top hats. Hull of ship w/ banner Deutschland sliding down ways. Hindenburg w/ paper by microphones. Ship into water. Moved w/ tugs, small boats around. Pocket Battleships; Cruiser Class; 1931; German Military Navy Ships; Note: Deutschland was deployed three time to Spanish Coast between 1936 & 1939 to aid in Spanish Civil War & was renamed Lutzow at outbreak of WWII. It survived until the last weeks of the war.