Cargoes
1939, English. Directed by Humphrey Jennings.
Shot in mid-1939 as S.S. Ionian (also shown as Her Last Trip), Humphrey Jennings’s GPO short follows the Royal Mail steamer on a last peacetime run through the Mediterranean—Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria, Haifa—under the gaze of the Mediterranean Fleet (HMS Barham, Malaya, Warspite). After the Ionian was sunk by a German mine on 29 November 1939 en route from Crete to Hull, the film was recut and released as Cargoes.
- Runtime
- 0h 9m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- English
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- 2 January 1939
- Country
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Cargoes runs 9 minutes (0h 9m).
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Cargoes isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 2 January 1939. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
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Who directed Cargoes?
Cargoes (1939) was directed by Humphrey Jennings.