Runnymede Park off Port de Bouc, France ca Aug47

Runnymede Park off Port de Bouc, France ca Aug47 Three ships outside harbor entrance. Runnymede Park and probably Ocean Vigour & Empire Rival seen from boat. Army truck & people ashore; stacks of boxes & supplies w/ men loading them into landing craft from truck. Soldiers or police watch. Landing craft w/ supplies. CU inspecting note or letter in small cheese box. French soldiers or police on dock. Small boat & men in suits; and others aboard small boat leaving dock. 05:11:19 Small power boat out, CU of man in pith helmet between others. Runnymede Park from small boat & landing craft w/ supplies approaching it. Two small boats circling it. Woman on ship’s deck by rail. Men in pith helmets boarding from gangway alongside as women watch. Men w/ packs crowd into ship. Emaciated man carried on stretcher & woman helped off ship (?). 05:12:26 CU bow of ship w/ Runnymede Park. CU Several people on ship waiving, man in pith helmet waving, woman shielding eyes in wind. People on small boat & man taking pictures of ship in distance. Journalists writing notes; emaciated man lying on boat floor. People on shore watching. People walk ashore w/ bags of possessions; men watching. Woman helped by woman & man. Young man has papers checked by soldier & turned back. 05:13:36 Night & people boarding Runnymede Park. Men standing looking; ambulance leaves. 05:13:47 Small boat on water around hull of Runnymede Park. Side of beef into small boat. Note: Ships had been refused landing in Palestine by British, then returned to France, finally went to Hamburg where British forcibly unloaded passengers. Post-WWII; Jewish Exodus; Immigration; 1947; Post-WW2;