British freighter GOWANBURN ashore at Blue Point, Long Island, NY, March 20, 1907

gelatin print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, Suffolk County, Blue Point; USA, NY, Long Island
1907-03-20
paper
3-1/2 x 4-1/2 in.

Gelatin print in album 1964.521 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; handwritten on album page "STR. 'GOWANBURN' BR./ ASHORE BLUE POINT L.I. MAR. 20 1907"; starboard view of steamship aground in the surf, 2 other vessels in background right; see duplicate print 1964.519.10 (neg. no. 2103); see correspondence file for "New York Times" 3/15/1907 article, "Through a stinging, blinding surf seventeen Chinamen and four white men of the crew of the British freighter Gowanburn, fast in the Long Island sands off Blue Point, ten miles east of Fire Island, were rescued in the breeches buoy shortly after 9 o'clock yesterday morning. . ."; see also account in USLSS Annual Report 1907 (pp 66-68) for account of death on 3/15/1907 of Edward Johnsen of the salvage crew.

1964.521.149