"U.S.S. Pollux as she lay wrecked on Lawn Point, Feb. 19/42"

black-and-white photograph

PHOTOGRAPHS
Edwards, Ena Farrow
Canada, Newfoundland (province), Lawn
1942-02-19
paper
overall: 3-1/2 x 5-3/8 in.; image: 2-3/8 x 3-3/8 in.

Photograph; black-and-white photograph of the "U.S.S. Pollux as she lay wrecked on Lawn Point, Feb. 19/42"; the ship was broken in three parts, only the middle section is above water; handwritten on front outside of image "8x10", "9x13", "8x10", "at that time" and "102"; caption printed below image "U.S.S. Pollux as she lay wrecked on Lawn/ Point, Feb. 19/42."; from Henry Strauss transcript in Sound Archives: "This [is] Ena [sic] Farrow's photograph of the POLLUX the day after we were rescued and appeared in the New York TImes. The ship was broken in three parts. You can see the afterpart broken off and the whole forward part, forward of the king posts broke off. The bosun chair was led from the bridge, port bridge ... a line from the port bridge to the rock. And everybody that was left was transferred from that position."

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