Joe Clark first went to sea as a nine year-old boy in the newly re-conditioned RMS Orion. The voyage to Australia took five weeks. He returned in the same ship some five years later by which time his love of the sea and ships was firmly embedded. As soon as he was able to leave school, he joined the Orient Line as a Cadet Purser. He served on Otranto, Orontes, Orion, Orcades, Orsova and the Empire Orwell. All the footage in his films was taken by amateurs - often crew members - on 8mm or 16mm cine cameras. The films are an authentic record of how it actually was - rather than how the shipping companies would like to portray it in publicity films. He died in 2019 and this channel has been put together by his family in his memory by publishing the hundreds of films he had collected and documented. They are available for non commercial use to anyone who finds an interest. They are uploaded in good faith that Joe owned the copyright, though he kept no documentation.
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