Lighter HUSTLER assisting troop ship SARATOGA, probably at Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company, Brooklyn, NY, July 1917

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, NY, Brooklyn
1917-07
paper
4-1/4 x 6-1/4 in.

Gelatin silver print in photograph album 2008.28.8 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; handwritten upper right "5929", and on album page "S.S. SARATOGA SUNK PIER 56 BKLYN." and "12" WRECKING PUMP"; lighter HUSTLER assisting troop ship SARATOGA, probably at Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company, Brooklyn, NY, after being towed from Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York, July 1917, after rammed by steamship PANAMA; from original negative 1964.660.1861; see related photographs 2008.28.8.21-29; see accession file for account of accident.

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