SHIP launch maybe ? UK LOCATION help required please

[001uk]

SHIP launching  UK LOCATION help, please

Hello!

Any ideas please as to the  location of this

SHIP LAUNCHING and name of ship ?

Apart from the ship builders' technical wording nothing else to read. Huge crowd watching the launch. American flag is draped at the right. Hillside in the distance.


With thanks~001uk

[ScouseBoy]

It could be Belfast, or Barrow in Furness, just as a starting point.

looks as though it is a ship commissioned for the Royal Navy

[PrawnCocktail]

I see no women, just working-class men. The large liners would have had more razzamatazz?

[ScouseBoy]

The women, children and VIPs  would be in a different location out of shot of the photographer.

[aghadowey]

I don't think the view of the hills on distant shore looks like the view from the ways in Belfast but there are so many other possibilities in England, Wales, Scotland (of in the U.K.)

Are you sure it is in the U.K.?

[mazi]

It's flying the White Ensign, so a navy ship?

Mike

[josey]

looks as though it is a ship commissioned for the Royal Navy

Yes, definitely a White Ensign on the ship.

Another dark national flag on right as well as the Stars & Stripes and another [?pale blue and white possibly Greece] to right of steps.

Josey

ADDED: what does this word say?

[HazelBea]

Just going on the background here. Devonport Plymouth ? The Warspite was launched in 1913 from this area. Scroll down to modern day pic.
https://goo.gl/images/Cg5a2q

[Kay99]

It does look good -This was the Warsprite launch http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-25104303